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“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
Abstract Painting No. 5, 1962
Ad Reinhardt’s work became increasingly reductive and symmetrical in the
1950’s and from 1955 until his death he worked almost exclusively in
near-black. In fact the blue-black surface of ‘Abstract Painting
No. 5’ has an underlying grid of different coloured squares divided by a
green central horizontal band. Seen from top left, the squares are:
red, blue, red, red, blue, red. Each of these colours was mixed with
black oil paint to give a matt surface quality.