Lucy lippard ad reinhardt biography
Ad Reinhardt was one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century.
Ad got an M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts where he studied Asian and Islamic art..
Ad Reinhardt
American painter and printmaker
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter and Art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades.
As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimalart and monochrome painting.
Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint.
Her biographies of Eva Hesse (Eva Hesse, ) and Ad Reinhardt (Ad Reinhardt, ) are likewise recognized as the standards in the field.He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists".
He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism.
He was also a member of The Club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s.