Art & Antiques

In the Abstract

t was about 110 years ago that artists intentionally began to work abstractly, and while the fortunes of abstraction have risen and fallen and risen again since then, by now two things are clear—that non-figurative art is here to stay, and that it still needs plenty of explaining in order to be understood and appreciated.

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