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Ad Reinhardt, born on December 24, 1913, in Germany, and died on August 30, 1967, in the United States, was a renowned American abstract expressionist artist. Known for his minimalist black-toned works, he had a profound impact on the art world.

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Famous Ad Reinhardt Quotes

“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.”

World Art Ideas Artist Situation Study Students University Museums Academic Art Students

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“The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Art Ideas Artist Business Ugly Selling Commodity Businessman

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Art Spiritual Sides Business Art Is

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”

Art Artist Burden

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.”

Art Stills Class Worst Taught Painting Chinese Indian Department Facility Art History Still Life

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“The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.”

Art Country Might Jobs Interesting Happened Worst University Department Brooklyn

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

Art Artist Taken Serious Art Is

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”

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Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“Art is art. Everything else is everything else.”

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Book:Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967

Source: Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967

About the Author

Born: December 24, 1913
Died: August 30, 1967
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 26

Books & Sources

Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad ReinhardtRelated source material

Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967Related source material

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