Title of Artwork: “How to Look at Modern Art”
Artwork by Ad Reinhardt
Year Created 1946
Summary of How to Look at Modern Art
When Ad Reinhardt made this famous cartoon in 1946, he tried to capture the essence of modern art with its history and problems in the United States.
All About How to Look at Modern Art
The Greeks, Persian miniatures, and Japanese prints are all part of the tree of modern art, which has roots that go back a long way in history. The roots are made up of Vincent Van Gogh, George Seurat, Paul Cezanne, and Paul Gauguin, the four main people behind Post-Impressionist art.
Subject matter and business as an art patron weigh down the tree. A cartoon inside of the cartoon pokes fun at the debate over representation versus abstraction. Reinhardt made a good point about the avant-garde in the United States by comparing business and art. The public and, more importantly, the patrons were not very fond of abstract art, calling it “degenerate” and “subversive.”
Information Citations
En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.
