(Buffalo, 24 December 1913 – New York, 30 August 1967) .
American abstract painter and theorist/writer. His most important work, created in the 1950s and 1960s, has similarities with post-painterly abstraction, hard edge and minimalism. Reinhardt strove for a style of painting that referred only to itself, meant nothing, and ‘bore no resemblance to anything on earth’. He was an advocate of the l’art pour l’art principle.
Ad Reinhardt. Photo: Hans Namuth Photographic Archive.
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
Ad Reinhardt Abstract Painting 1963. 🧠 Betekenis:✍️:A purist boundary: art should be only art, not a tool for: politics 🗳️; illustration/narrative 📖; entertainment 🎭;self-help/therapy 🧘; decoration/status/commerce 💰. It’s essentially a slogan against instrumentalizing art: Art = itself; everything with an external purpose = “everything else.” 🧷 Original✅:Ad Reinhardt, “Art is art. Everything else is everything else.” You’ll also see a very common Reinhardt-expanded phrasing (still his idea, just a slightly different sentence form): “The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else.” 👤 Author: Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) — American abstract painter (famous for the late “black paintings”) and an outspoken advocate of art-as-art purism. 🧾 Origin / where it comes from (reliable “home” for the quote) 📚 The safest, standard place to cite this line is Reinhardt’s collected writings: Ad Reinhardt, in writings/remarks on “art-as-art”, collected in: Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt, ed. Barbara Rose (New York: Viking Press, 1975). ✅
Door Pieter
Mensenmens, zoon, echtgenoot, vader, opa.
Spiritueel, echter niet religieus.
Ik hou van golf, wandelen, lezen en de natuur in veel opzichten.
Onderzoeker, nieuwsgierig, geen fan van de mainstream media (MSM).
