Reinhardt was a highly skilled painter and developed a soft, rapid brushing technique to remove traces of his own hand, a paradox he called “brushwork that brushes out brushwork.” As this and his other statements of the early 1950s attest, he stripped away the gestural qualities of his work to focus on the subtle chromatic effects of variation on a single hue.
Additional text from In The Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting online course, Coursera, 2017