The job at Brooklyn is inte... by Ad Reinhardt, an American Artist

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“The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.”

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Name: Ad Reinhardt

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Dec 24, 1913

Date of Death: Aug 30, 1967

Profession: Artist

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

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