When an aunt gives Moscow schoolboy Vasily Kandinsky a paint box, no one knows what to make of the wild shapes he creates. He doesn’t just see the colors. He hears them: “blaring crimson ...

Colors are supersaturated or lines sharp and crisp or shapes odd and wonderful. The beauty of abstract art, besides the bold statement it makes, is that it never goes out of fashion, and the ...

Caretakers of The Limit (1947), a greyish-green abstract painting by Armenian American ... of The Limit was peeling up to reveal vibrant colors below. The evidence was clear.