What do you represent reinhardt

In the first frame, a man points at a modernist abstraction. All Rights reserved. November 13, am. The Four Art Castes are Purehatpriests, Guruteacherhats, Sunnyascetichats and Bighatdevotees… So proclaimed an astrological chart in the May issue of this magazine.

Powered by WordPress. Our Sites. Close the menu Menu. ARTnews Expand the sub menu. Instead, the show presented his cartoons, illustrations and collages as art works in their own right.

In the process, it rendered Reinhardt as idealistic and crestfallen by turns, yet steadfastly committed to his beliefs in internationalism and equality, as well as to the politics of looking. It was evident in the collage, too, where photographic material was abstracted into geometrical compositions that he later used in his paintings.

What do you represent? At Baltic Centre, Gateshead, the Lithuanian artist duo open their first UK institutional solo with a quasi-operating room featuring a giant mechanical doctor. Art is not what is not art. The one object of fifty years of Abstract Art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive — non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.

The only and one way to say what Abstract Art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. The one subject of a hundred years of modern art is that awareness of art of itself, of art preoccupied with its own process and means, with its own identity and distinction, art concerned with its own unique statement, art conscious of its own evolution and history and destiny, toward its own freedom, its own dignity, its own essence, its own reason, its own morality and its own conscience. The one meaning in art-as-art, past or present, is art meaning.

When an art object is separated from its original time and place and use and is moved into the art museum, it gets emptied and purified of all its meanings except one.

A religious object that becomes a work of art in an art museum loses all its religious meanings. No one in his right mind goes to an art museum to worship anything but art, or to learn about anything else. The one place for art-as-art is the museum of fine art.

The reason for the museum of fine art is the preservation of ancient and modern art that cannot be made again and that does not have to be done again. A museum of fine art should exclude everything but fine art, and be separate from museums of ethnology, geology, archaeology, history, decorative arts, industrial arts, military arts, and museums of other things.

To read our full stories, please turn off your ad blocker. We'd really appreciate it. Click the AdBlock button on your browser and select Don't run on pages on this domain. Installation view. Courtesy David Zwirner Most of us—artists and otherwise—struggle to be great at one thing.

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