Because “Magnetic Fields” focuses on artists who were black, female, and committed their passions specifically to abstract art. Understanding ... solid red lattice of Orion (1973), from ...

Growing up in Jim Crow Alabama, Whitten was barred from the public library but, by 1960, he was in New York, studying art at Cooper Union. The Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis (a Black American ...

black and dark tones predominate, allowing his geometric and rigorous compositions to generate a sense of order and structure. Abstract art also profoundly impacted mid-twentieth-century ...

The power of abstract art lies in its ability to convey meaning ... and line features to portray each emotion. People used red and black for anger; brown, green, and ochre for disgust; black ...

East Petersburg painter Denny Bond, a previous top prize winner in the Art of the State ... along with black birds and yellow, black and red abstract details, was the only winning work by a ...