Ad Reinhardt: life and works

Adolph Frederick “Ad” Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter swift in New York arrival in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a aficionada of the American Abstract Artists and was a ration of the hobby centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. He was also a aficionada of The club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote and lectured extensively upon art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his “black” or “ultimate” paintings, he claimed to be painting the “last paintings” that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to avant-garde for abstract art and next to what he described as “the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists”.