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Ad Reinhardt is an American artist. In his paintings he produces with south-geometric understanding the influence of Platonic understanding, his Eastern beliefs and art concepts as well as the abstract painters K. Malević, P. Mondrian and cuvism. After 1940, in the context of American art, their works were also associated with abstract exorcism. Initially, single-colored small geometric shapes with different colors in their compositions left their place in the process to color areas with fewer colors and wider surfaces. In this context, the artist has also worked on monochrome compositions that show a reductive tendency. The artist who produced abstract paintings throughout the process has emphasized the importance of abstract art with the illustrations and cartoons he uses with his writings or figures. The aim of the study is to emphasize the importance of the artist in the context of plastic arts by analyzing the paintings of Ad Reinhard in terms of form-content. Examples of the abstract paintings produced by the artist between the 1930s and 1960s are the examples of the work. In the study, literature scan and work examination methods were applied. The works in the process, starting from the early-period work that can be reached, including the last-period images, have been solved by grouping in the form-content direction, taking into account similar compositions outside the framework of color series. The data received was discussed in terms of the importance of the work. In the works perceived as black, it has been achieved the knowledge that other colors are actually used, that the form of the cross perceived on the surface is not used as a symbol with religious content, and that this form appears with time in the process of artistic creation. It is emphasized that the artist's black-intensity paintings can also be evaluated in the conceptual context of art.

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