Ad Reinhardt:
(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.
