Ad Reinhardt Blue Paintings at David Zwirner, just closed on October 21
Ad Reinhardt, 1950, oil on canvas
This museum caliber exhibition presented a rare opportunity to see works from about a five-year period, focused on a deep exploration of the color blue. Here Reinhardt worked up to, and achieved the slow nuanced contrasts of the later black paintings, but with the retinal punch and metaphorical expansiveness of a vast array of blues. The show was breathtaking in its scope, and in its emotional presence. Reinhardt, very early on, hit notes of compressed monochromatic intensity that escaped even late Rothko.
Ad Reinhardt, Number 88 (Blue), 1950, oil on canvas
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting Blue, 1952, oil on canvas
Ad Reinhardt Blue Paintings, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting Blue, 1952, oil on canvas
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting Blue, 1952, oil on canvas
Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting Blue, 1952, oil on canvas
Ad Reinhardt Blue Paintings, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC (image from gallery website)
