funeral:Ad Reinhardt sought to create an art form that, in its monochromatic purity, could overcome
funeral:Ad Reinhardt sought to create an art form that, in its monochromatic purity, could overcome the tyrannies of oppositional thinking.In 1957 Reinhardt wrote an article titled “Twelve Rules for a New Academy”. He sharply criticized his formalist contemporaries, offering instead twelve ways to achieve purity in art. There would be no forms, no texture, no color, nothing, just pure blackness, as in Reinhardt’s most famous paintings.1. No texture.2. No brushwork or calligraphy.3. No sketching or drawing.4. No forms.5. No design.6. No colors.7. No light.8. No space.9. No time.10. No size or scale.11. No movement.12. No object, no subject, no matter. No symbols, images or signs.Text from Formidable Mag -- source link