ABSTRACT
Dragoljub Raša Todosijevic is a Serbian conceptual artist, and an advocate of American radical art: Minimalism, Conceptual art, and Fundamental Painting. The article in the chapter discusses the parallels between the Radical Abstraction of Ad Reinhardt and his political comics and diagrams, emphasizing the importance of irony and social critique. To understand Reinhardt’s humorous collages and complex satires, it is necessary to bear in mind the series of powerful, internal events in the climate of the so-called “heroic period” of the New York School. Reinhardt, in contrast to ideas about the impossibility of containing gesture and form, and the explosion of color, argues for a completely premeditated art. The purity of art’s language and the perfection of artistic ethics are the two fundamental and perhaps only principles that Reinhardt advocated. Reinhardt made his satirical collages for magazines and newspapers as a form of reportage from the art world.
