Frases de Ad Reinhardt

Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt foi um pintor abstrato ativo em Nova York a partir de 1930 e continuando até a década de 1960. Ele era um membro do American Abstract Artists e fazia parte do movimento centrado na Betty Parsons Gallery, que ficou conhecido como expressionismo abstrato. Ele também foi membro do The Club, o local de encontro dos artistas expressionistas abstratos da New York School durante as décadas de 1940 e 1950. Ele escreveu e lecionou extensivamente sobre arte e foi uma grande influência na arte conceitual, arte minimalista e pintura monocromática. Mais famoso por suas pinturas "negras" ou "definitivas", ele dizia estar pintando as "últimas pinturas" que qualquer um pode pintar. Ele acreditava em uma filosofia da arte que ele chamava de Arte-como-Arte e usava sua escrita e charges satíricas para defender a arte abstrata e contra o que ele descreveu como "as práticas de artistas-como-artistas de má reputação". Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Dezembro 1913 – 30. Agosto 1967
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Ad Reinhardt: Frases em inglês

“The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.”

after 1967 - posthumous
Fonte: Gerhard Richter, Doubt and belief in painting, Robert Storr, MOMA, New York, 2003, p. 32 note 1.

“My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil. [1957, reacting on a remark of Picasso ]”

1956 - 1967
Fonte: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 151

“The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.”

Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1956 - 1967
Variante: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.

“vagueness is a 'romantic' value.... an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.”

Quote of Ad Reinhardt in: Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 107
after 1967 - posthumous

“Who said last, 'A cleaner New York-school is Up To You?”

1956 - 1967
Fonte: the 'Ad Reinhardts Papers', Archives of American Art, microfilm no. N/69-103, frame no. 285

“Study the old masters. Look at nature. Watch out for armpits'. [in 1956, Reinhardt is quoting Paul Cézanne here freely]”

1956 - 1967
Fonte: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 150

“An abstract painting will react to you if you react to it. You get from it what you bring to it. It will meet you half way but no further. It is alive if you are. It represents something and so do you. YOU, SIR, ARE A SPACE, TOO.”

Quote from the six page comic How to Look at Anvolved in some ideas. In painting – for me – no fooling-the-eye, no window-hole-in-the wall, no illusions, no representations, no associations, no distortions, no paint-caricaturing, no dream pictures of dripping, no delirium trimmings, no sadism or slashing, no therapy, no kicking-the-effigy, no clowning, no acrobatics, no heroics, no self-pity, no guilt.. ..no abstraction of everything, no nonsense, no involvements, no confusing painting with everything that is no painting.


Fonte: Contemporary American Painting, University rt, in Arts & Architecture, January 1947. note: 1940 - 1955,
en.wikiquote.org - Ad Reinhardt / Quotes of Ad Reinhardt / 1940 - 1955

“Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. [1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell ]”

1956 - 1967
Fonte: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 152

“Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal.”

1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
1956 - 1967
Fonte: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 152

“Study the old masters. Look at nature. Watch out for armpits.”

[in 1956, Reinhardt is quoting Paul Cézanne here freely]
1956 - 1967
Fonte: Pax, no. 13, 1960; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 150

“What greater challenge today.... to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space?”

quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian
Quote of Ad Reinhardt in: Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. ?
1940 - 1955