Abstract Painting, Blue
1952
Abstract
Oil on canvas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
One of Reinhardt’s most successful paintings of his Blue Series this abstract work features rectangular forms in various shades of blue and green suspended within an azure surface. The solid blocks of colour appear to be weightless creating a harmonious, modernist tranquillity.
Ad Reinhardt
Abstract-Expressionism, Modern Art, Hard Edge Painting
Born: 24 December 1913, New York, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 30 August 1967, New York, USA
Reinhardt was an abstract painter, a member of the American Abstract Artists, and part of the movement that became known as Abstract Expressionism. Reinhardt wrote and lectured on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art, and monochrome painting
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