Privilegiando os textos produzidos por Ad Reinhardt como fonte primária, o trabalho procurou apontar o desenvolvimento de seu pensamento e o lugar de seus escritos em relação aos debates da crítica de arte que nortearam a produção das vanguardas norteamericanas até a década de sessenta do século XX e analisou a influência de seus escritos em autores que escreveram nesta mesma década. Primeiramente, o trabalho investigou as apropriações que as idéias vinculadas às vanguardas artísticas européias sofreram em confronto com as necessidades peculiares ao ambiente cultural norte-americano dos anos trinta. Num segundo momento, analisou-se como este debate é atualizado a ponto de servir de base para a criação e produção de uma vanguarda artística norte-americana, que, por sua vez, é oficializada e institucionalizada nos anos do pós-guerra. Anos estes que, não por acaso, marcam a tentativa de imposição mundial, no pleno andamento da guerra fria, do american way of life através da consolidação da cultura de classe média. Nesse contexto, tendo em vista o posicionamento de Ad Reinhardt, o questionamento se encaminha em direção aos limites e possibilidades do viés crítico implícito em seus escritos em relação às sociedades articuladas em torno do consumo de mercadorias, tal como ficou configurado na experiência norte-americana do pós-guerra. Nesse sentido, a investigação se conduziu para a verificação das circunstâncias nas quais os textos de Reinhardt são lidos, especialmente por seus colegas, a partir de meados dos anos sessenta. Em suma, este itinerário, ao final de seu percurso, procurou demonstrar a importância, em meio ao debate do modernismo norte americano, do conceito central de Ad Reinahdrt: Art-as-Art e das idéias a ele relacionadas. / Considering the texts produced by Ad Reinhardt as a primary source, the study aimed to show the development of his thinking and the place of his writings in the domain of the discussions of art criticism that guided the production of North American avant-garde to the sixties of the twentieth century and examined the influence of his writings on authors who wrote in this same decade. Firstly, the work investigated the appropriations that the ideas linked to European artistic avant-garde suffered by comparison with the needs peculiar to the American cultural environment of the thirties. In a second moment, it analyzed how this debate is updated to serve as a basis for the creation and production of an artistic avant-garde of U.S., which, in turn, is made official and institutionalized in the post-war years. Years that, not by chance, marks the attempt to impose worldwide, in full progress of the cold war, the \"American way of life\" by consolidating the culture of middle class. In this context, considering the position of Ad Reinhardt, the question is shifted toward the limits and possibilities of the critic position implicit in his writings in contrast with the society articulated around the consumption of goods, as was set up in the post-war North American experience. In this sense, research is guided to verify the circumstances in which the Reinhardts texts are read, especially by his colleagues from the mid-sixties. In short, this route, at the end of its journey, sought to demonstrate the importance, in the midst of the debate on North American modernism, of the central concept of Ad Reinhardt: Art-as-Art, and the ideas related to it

Privilegiando os textos produzidos por Ad Reinhardt como fonte primária, o trabalho procurou apontar o desenvolvimento de seu pensamento e o lugar de seus escritos em relação aos debates da crítica de arte que nortearam a produção das vanguardas norteamericanas até a década de sessenta do século XX e analisou a influência de seus escritos em autores que escreveram nesta mesma década. Primeiramente, o trabalho investigou as apropriações que as idéias vinculadas às vanguardas artísticas européias sofreram em confronto com as necessidades peculiares ao ambiente cultural norte-americano dos anos trinta. Num segundo momento, analisou-se como este debate é atualizado a ponto de servir de base para a criação e produção de uma vanguarda artística norte-americana, que, por sua vez, é oficializada e institucionalizada nos anos do pós-guerra. Anos estes que, não por acaso, marcam a tentativa de imposição mundial, no pleno andamento da guerra fria, do american way of life através da consolidação da cultura de classe média. Nesse contexto, tendo em vista o posicionamento de Ad Reinhardt, o questionamento se encaminha em direção aos limites e possibilidades do viés crítico implícito em seus escritos em relação às sociedades articuladas em torno do consumo de mercadorias, tal como ficou configurado na experiência norte-americana do pós-guerra. Nesse sentido, a investigação se conduziu para a verificação das circunstâncias nas quais os textos de Reinhardt são lidos, especialmente por seus colegas, a partir de meados dos anos sessenta. Em suma, este itinerário, ao final de seu percurso, procurou demonstrar a importância, em meio ao debate do modernismo norte americano, do conceito central de Ad Reinahdrt: Art-as-Art e das idéias a ele relacionadas. / Considering the texts produced by Ad Reinhardt as a primary source, the study aimed to show the development of his thinking and the place of his writings in the domain of the discussions of art criticism that guided the production of North American avant-garde to the sixties of the twentieth century and examined the influence of his writings on authors who wrote in this same decade. Firstly, the work investigated the appropriations that the ideas linked to European artistic avant-garde suffered by comparison with the needs peculiar to the American cultural environment of the thirties. In a second moment, it analyzed how this debate is updated to serve as a basis for the creation and production of an artistic avant-garde of U.S., which, in turn, is made official and institutionalized in the post-war years. Years that, not by chance, marks the attempt to impose worldwide, in full progress of the cold war, the \"American way of life\" by consolidating the culture of middle class. In this context, considering the position of Ad Reinhardt, the question is shifted toward the limits and possibilities of the critic position implicit in his writings in contrast with the society articulated around the consumption of goods, as was set up in the post-war North American experience. In this sense, research is guided to verify the circumstances in which the Reinhardts texts are read, especially by his colleagues from the mid-sixties. In short, this route, at the end of its journey, sought to demonstrate the importance, in the midst of the debate on North American modernism, of the central concept of Ad Reinhardt: Art-as-Art, and the ideas related to it

The objective of my thesis is to extend the scholarship on colour in painting by focusing on how it is employed within the structuring framework of the orthogonal grid in the paintings of three contemporary artists, Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin and Gerhard Richter. Form and colour are essential elements in painting, and within the “essentialist” grid painting, the presence and function of colour have not received the full discussion they deserve. Structuralist, post-structuralist and anthropological modes of critical analysis in the latter part of the twentieth century, framed by postwar disillusionment and skepticism, have contributed to the effective foreclosure of examination of metaphysical, spiritual and utopian dimensions promised by the grid and its colour earlier in the century. Artists working with the grid have explored, and continue to explore the same eternally vexing problems and mysteries of our existence, but analyses of their art are cloaked in an atmosphere and language of rationalism. Critics and scholars have devoted their attention to discussing the properties of form, giving the behavior and status of colour, as a property affecting mind and body, little mention. The position of colour deserves to be re-dressed, so that we may have a more complete understanding of grid painting as a discrete kind of abstract painting. Each of the three artists I have examined here employed colour and grid in strategies unique to their work and its purposes. Ad Reinhardt arrived at his 1960s “black” paintings out of a background that included strong political beliefs, resistance to the dominant strain of 1950s Abstract Expressionism, and a deep interest in eastern religions and Buddhism. Agnes Martin shared Reinhardt’s interest in Buddhism and eastern religions, but chose to move toward the light in the atmospheric colour of her paintings, speaking of the quest for perfection of the mind in her writings and interviews. Gerhard Richter’s colour charts, a longstanding major subset of the vast range of this prolific artist’s work, speak to a need to go beyond his love of painting to the ungraspable substance of colour itself. / Thesis (Master, Art History) -- Queen's University, 2011-09-27 12:34:58.813

This study offers a comparative investigation into selected figurative and nonfigurative, monochromatic (and mainly monochromatic) artworks by Ad Reinhardt, Ultimate Painting nr 39 (1963), Yves Klein, Monochrome bleu (IKB 3) (1956) and The thin red line (1970) by Douglas Portway. The aim of this research is to examine the possible subjective, meaningful function of the seemingly objective artworks. The selected artworks represent the formalist tendency of the high-Modernist conception of art-as-art, or the artwork as an autonomous objective object. At first sight the objective artworks seem to refute the subjective intentions of the artists who present them as both an externalisation of subjective experience and as possibly meaningful to the viewer. The investigation into the possible subjectively meaningful artworks is guided by an Existential approach to the aesthetic experience, as proposed by Nietzche’s Dionysian and Apollonian concepts as well as Sartre’s conceptualisation of néantisation and the imagination respectively. Both philosophers describe aesthetic experience as a meeting between both subjective and objective elements of their philosophy. The experience of the aesthetic (in the artworks) ultimately leads to a subjective space within which the seemingly objective artworks function as a subjective platform on which the Existential search for meaning can be considered (and possibly relieved). / MA (History of Art), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

This study offers a comparative investigation into selected figurative and nonfigurative, monochromatic (and mainly monochromatic) artworks by Ad Reinhardt, Ultimate Painting nr 39 (1963), Yves Klein, Monochrome bleu (IKB 3) (1956) and The thin red line (1970) by Douglas Portway. The aim of this research is to examine the possible subjective, meaningful function of the seemingly objective artworks. The selected artworks represent the formalist tendency of the high-Modernist conception of art-as-art, or the artwork as an autonomous objective object. At first sight the objective artworks seem to refute the subjective intentions of the artists who present them as both an externalisation of subjective experience and as possibly meaningful to the viewer. The investigation into the possible subjectively meaningful artworks is guided by an Existential approach to the aesthetic experience, as proposed by Nietzche’s Dionysian and Apollonian concepts as well as Sartre’s conceptualisation of néantisation and the imagination respectively. Both philosophers describe aesthetic experience as a meeting between both subjective and objective elements of their philosophy. The experience of the aesthetic (in the artworks) ultimately leads to a subjective space within which the seemingly objective artworks function as a subjective platform on which the Existential search for meaning can be considered (and possibly relieved). / MA (History of Art), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

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