Ad Reinhardt  New York 1966

This painting here

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Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, oil on canvas, 5’ x 5’ (~1.5m x 1.5m), 1962

In person, this seems like a completely black canvas until you look at it for a while, then the shapes start to appear

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=12353&searchid=9674

and

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/07/ad-reinhardt-abstract-expressionist.html

Reinhardt painting this

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Related, Ad Reinhardt, Red and Grey

Ad Reinhardt, Untitled (Red and Gray), oil on canvas, 1950

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2009/meyerhoff/index.shtm

and

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4856&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1

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