AD Reinhardt

Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt (“AD” Reinhardt), born on December 24th, 1913 and deceased on August 30th, 1967, is a painter and a theoretical author, precursor of the Conceptual art and Minimal art. It was also a critic of the abstract Expressionnisme.

As of its first fabrics, Reinhardt turns the back on the figuration, but this first abstraction will be radicalized during its career and the evolution of its work shows a progressive and constant distance of any reference to the outside world. Compositions with geometrical forms in the years 1940, its work progresses in the years 1950 worms of the fabrics painted in various nuances of the same color (red, blue, white). Lastly, in the years 1960, it begins paintings known as “black” which it will paint until the end of its life and for which it is more particularly known: fabrics which at first sight seem to be simply painted in black and are in fact made up of subtle nuances of black. Among many suggestions, these paintings raise the question of the existence of the absolute.

Biography

Reinhardt was born with Buffalo (New York). He studied the history of art to the Université Columbia where he bound friendship with Robert Lax and Thomas Merton and it is interesting to see how these three artists developed in various directions the same concept of simplicity. Reinhardt continued to study painting with New York with Karl Holty and Francis Criss with the American Artists School , then with the National Academy off Design with Karl Anderson.

In 1936, it was employed by the Federal Art Project , one of the branches of the Works Progress Administration set up during the Grande Depression, and he quickly became a member of the group of the American Abstract Artists (AAA).

After has to see completed its studies with the Institute off Fine Arts of the Université of New York, Reinhardt became professor with the Brooklyn College then with the California School off Fine Arts with San Francisco, with the Université of Wyoming, the Université Yale and the Hunter College of New York.

Writings

Its writings contain interesting comments on its own work and the work of its contemporaries. Its concise spirit, its developments relevant and its abstraction make their readings interesting even for those which did not see its paintings.

Like its paintings, its writings remain discussed decades after their publication.

AD Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (ED.), Art ace Art: The Selected Writing off AD Reinhardt , University off California Near, 1991.

References

Julia Mr. Busch, '' has Decade Sculpture off: the New Media in the 1960 ' S '', The Art Alliance Near: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974, ISBN 0-87982-007-1

External bonds

AD Reinhardt bio on the site of Guggenheim Museum.
Art Collection on the site of the MOMA.

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