No. 1, from the portfolio Ten by Ad Reinhardt
Artist/Maker
Ad Reinhardt
(American, 1913–1967)
Date1964
MediumSilkscreen
DimensionsImage: 12 1/16 × 11 15/16 in. (30.6 × 30.3 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineArt Rental Collection Transfer
PortfolioTen by Ad Reinhardt
Object number1988.39
Status
Not on view“Art is art. Everything else is everything else,” Reinhardt famously quipped. He was one of the most radically abstract painters of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s. He eliminated from his process the intuitive gestures that defined his peers’ careers, instead challenging the viewer to focus their attention on meditative, monochromatic blocks of color, and the minute variations in tonality from one area of the canvas to the next. He believed that “pure” art was separate from everyday life. Close, sustained looking reveals differences in tonality within each work and between the two compositions.
Exhibition History
Prints Since 1960
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 1998 - November 1, 1998 )
Print Portfolios Since 1960
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 6, 1998 - December 20, 1998 )
Everything is Stardust: Artmaking and the Knowability of the Universe
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 1, 2023 - December 23, 2023 )
Collections
- Modern & Contemporary
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