A modern abstract painting takes over one complete wall.

一幅现代抽象画占了整整一面墙。

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An ancestral native of Chenghai, Guangdong, Professor Lin Shengyang was a famous modern abstract artist.

林圣扬博士为著名现代抽象艺术家，原籍广东澄海。

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Knowing White and Guarding Black — on the position of "Black and White" in Chinese modern abstract oil painting by studying Zhao Wu-ji's painting colour.

知白守黑——由赵无极绘画色彩看“黑白”在中国现代抽象油画中的地位。

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But now an exhibition at London's Tate Modern aims to demonstrate that she was an important figure in the history of modernism perhaps the first abstract modern artist in Lebanon and even the Arab world.

WSJ: Review: Lebanon's Lost Modernist | 'Saloua Raouda Choucair' at Tate Modern in London

Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century art

The new geographers are asking us to make more modest claims for abstract ideas and modern machines than we like to.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces