A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the winter of 2012, New York’s Museum of Modern Art mounted a blockbuster-scale ...
BEFORE World War II, abstract art was dominated by the geometrical and almost architectural paintings that grew out of cubism and culminated in Piet Mondrian’s austere compositions in primary red, ...
The Guardian: 'They called her a crazy witch': did medium Hilma af Klint invent abstract art?
Years before Kandinsky, the Swedish artist was painting circles, sunbursts and looping lines – instructed, she believed, by spirits. Now, over 75 years since her death, she is being recognised as a pi ...
'They called her a crazy witch': did medium Hilma af Klint invent abstract art?
National Geographic news: A child couldn’t paint that – can people tell abstract art from a child’s or chimp’s work?
If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, you’ll eventually come across Painting Number 2 by Franz Kline, a set of thick, unruly black lines on a white canvas. Elsewhere, you will find ...
A child couldn’t paint that – can people tell abstract art from a child’s or chimp’s work?
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