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(Audio Commentary)
Ad Reinhardt
American (Buffalo, N.Y., 1913-1967, New York, N.Y.)
untitled
1990.06.012
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| Ad Reinhardt considered himself to be a member of the abstract expressionist movement,
but instead of channeling the primal creative urge through the artist's subjectivity
and physical action like Jackson Pollock, Reinhardt insisted that a painting should
be, "pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless,
disinterested...self-conscious, ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art." This
branch of AbEx was named color field painting, and it is characterized by large areas
of a single hue. The "black" paintings of Reinhardt's final decade best achieved his
goal, and he considered them "ultimate" works of art. The paintings and this print
are not simple rectangles of black. If you stand slightly to one side or the other
and look carefully, you can see nine equal squares, three up by three across, each
of a slightly different color or surface characteristic.
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