Trivium Art History
The Artists

Ad Reinhardt"Art-as-art and nothing else"

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Untitled

Untitled

1937
Study for a Painting

Study for a Painting

1938
Study for a Painting

Study for a Painting

1938
Untitled

Untitled

1938
Study for a Painting

Study for a Painting

1939
Study for a Painting

Study for a Painting

1939
Collage

Collage

1940
Newsprint Collage

Newsprint Collage

1940
Composition

Composition

1940
Untitled

Untitled

1940
Number 43

Number 43

1947
Yellow Painting

Yellow Painting

1949
Number 107

Number 107

1950
No. 12

No. 12

1950
Abstract Painting no. 4

Abstract Painting no. 4

1961
Abstract Painting

Abstract Painting

1966
1901
Modern Day Polymath
Gordon Parks
An essay on inwardness and silence
Agnes Martin Ad Reinhardt
"X = an Orange Rabbit"
Méret Oppenheim
The truncated lives of women
Amrita Sher-Gil 2000

The artists of Minimalism

Ad ReinhardtPortrait of Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt"Art-as-art and nothing else"

1913-1967
Ellsworth KellyPortrait of Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth KellyDeconstructing the visible

1923-2015
Brice MardenPortrait of Brice Marden

Brice MardenGrow the ability to see

1938-
Robert SmithsonPortrait of Robert Smithson

Robert SmithsonRelationships with physical landscape

1938-1973
Agnes MartinPortrait of Agnes Martin

Agnes MartinAn essay on inwardness and silence

1912-2004

The artists of Abstract Expressionism

Joan MitchellPortrait of Joan Mitchell

Joan MitchellArt as competitive sport

1925-1992
Willem de KooningPortrait of Willem de Kooning

Willem de KooningViolent encounters

1904-1997
Lee KrasnerPortrait of Lee Krasner

Lee KrasnerInsomnia and aggressive painting

1908-1984
Robert MotherwellPortrait of Robert Motherwell

Robert MotherwellPainting as experience

1915-1991
Helen FrankenthalerPortrait of Helen Frankenthaler

Helen FrankenthalerThe joy of pure color

1928-2011
Cy TwomblyPortrait of Cy Twombly

Cy TwomblyThe power of the scribble

1928-2011
Barnett NewmanPortrait of Barnett Newman

Barnett NewmanStaring down the present moment

1905-1970
Arshile GorkyPortrait of Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

1904-1948
Clyfford StillPortrait of Clyfford Still

Clyfford StillPainting with knives

1904-1980
Adolph GottliebPortrait of Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph GottliebDifferent times require different images

1903-1974
Ad ReinhardtPortrait of Ad Reinhardt

Ad Reinhardt"Art-as-art and nothing else"

1913-1967
Elaine de KooningPortrait of Elaine de Kooning

Elaine de KooningWriter, teacher, and a natural painter

1918-1989
Robert RauschenbergPortrait of Robert Rauschenberg

Robert RauschenbergBlowing up modernism

1925-2008
Ahmed YacoubiPortrait of Ahmed Yacoubi

Ahmed YacoubiKaleidoscopic abstraction

1928-1985
Mark RothkoPortrait of Mark Rothko

Mark RothkoThe hope of transcendence through color

1903-1970
Norman LewisPortrait of Norman Lewis

Norman LewisAn artist must make their own way to contribute to culture

1909-1979
Alma ThomasPortrait of Alma Thomas

Alma ThomasTackling abstraction at 75

1891-1978
Seund Ja RheePortrait of Seund Ja Rhee

Seund Ja RheeBringing Korean abstraction to Paris

1918-2009