Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a know… - Ad Reinhardt

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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 ]

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Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. He was also a critic of abstract expressionism.

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Pen Names: Reinhardt, Adolph Frederick

Alternative Names: Adolph Frederick Reinhardt • Adolph Frederick. Reinhardt • Adolph F. Reinhardt • Adolph Dietmar Friedrich Reinhardt • Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt • Ad F. Reinhardt • Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt • A. D. F. Reinhardt

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Patrick Swift Robert Motherwell Donald Judd Gerhard Richter Marcel Duchamp

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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)

The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.

It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.

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