Ad Reinhardt Quotes About Defining

• 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.

  →

  Ad Reinhardt

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.53, Univ of California Press

  3182

You May Also Like:

Robert Ryman

Frank Stella

Hans Hofmann

Adolph Gottlieb

Philip Guston

Mark Rothko

Agnes Martin

Willem de Kooning