

How to Look at and Understand Great Art
Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language
S1 • E33 Dec 31, 2010
Abstraction and Modernism forged a daring new definition of art, breaking dramatically with the past. Discover the philosophical and experiential underpinnings of abstraction and nonrepresentational art, now radically freed from imitating nature. Encounter art's new language in visionary works by Kandinsky, Marc, Pollock, De Kooning, and others.