Ad Reinheart

Hello and Happy Wednesday as always!

 

How are you this week?  Things in NJ are excellent.  Did I tell you about my hummingbirds?  We put a feeder out in the backyard and filled it with the fancy store-bought red stuff that they’re supposed to love, and we had no hummingbirds.  And then I made some sugar water with red food coloring in it (which is about a million times cheaper than the store bought fancy stuff) and as soon as we put it out, we had visitors!  I LOVE them.  They are just the cutest little things – I adore how they hover, and how their wings turn into a blur because they’re moving so fast!  In the next week or so we’ll probably stop seeing them because they’ll go south for the winter.  Maybe they’ll come visit you in Florida!

This weeks’ artist is Adolph “Ad” Frederick Reinhardt.  He lived in the early 1900s and was only 53 when he died in the 1960s. He’s probably most famous for painting these big black squares…which I hate (they’re actually bunches of shades of almost black, but really, it’s a big black square).  I don’t get it.  He had this whole philosophy about them, but from my perspective, although the thought pattern is interesting, anyone can paint a big black square. There’s nothing artistically interesting about it (art people everywhere are feeling a chill creep down their spines as I write that statement, but I don’t care.  I’m allowed to hate it.). 

 

However, he did some really fun abstract paintings that I like a lot.  They’re probably also supposed to be really deep and profound, but I just like to look at them and try to see things.  I’m pretty sure there’s an upside-down clown face in the first one, and I see two happy people hugging in the second.

 

Know that I love you both and think that you’re awesome.

Hugs and kisses,

Auntie Paula

xoxoxoxo