For the next 20 years they showcased modern art with an emphasis on African-Americans, including work by abstract expressionist Norman Lewis, Boston-born Lois Mailou Jones (known for incorporating African images into her work) and lesser-known Washington-area artists.
There will also be exhibitions across the Tate dedicated to the work of abstract artist Kazimir Malevich, Germany's Sigmar Polke and a survey of British Folk Art.
The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.
In reaction, it was soon posited that abstract work had meaning, but as part of a code or system of signs.
What caught my eye this month is "The Sisters" (below), a hypnotically luminous 1991-93 abstract work by Brice Marden, one of America's leading artists and the subject of a new book, "Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus" (Phaidon).
His work would later take a more abstract turn, shimmering, like jewel boxes, and a little blurred, with a distorted sense of time and place and with mysterious, lonely figures.
While the two professors' work has much in common at an "abstract level, " their methods are different, Ellingsen said.
Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.
Abstract artist Sarah Morris is among those whose work has been sold under the programme, which has been running for five years.
Then, in the second gallery, a new world of possibilities seems to be opening up, with some of Sir Anthony's earliest abstract sculptures from the 1960s, open-work forms in painted steel and aluminium, all resting on the ground.
Unlike more abstract forms of criticism, which seem to place the work of art in a vacuum, Ms Showalter's is grounded in the lived lives of her subjects, for whom she provides vibrant biographical sketches.
ABSTRACT:Short story about a man who plays hooky from work and lies to his boss about his baby dying.
Sean Scully, an Irish-born painter who does large geometric abstract oils that look a little like checkerboards, has complained that Saatchi pumped and then dumped his work in the 1980s.
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