The Shape of Abstraction

By kcornuel (32)

Defining abstract art, which bridges culture from prehistoric to contemporary, can be complicated. But in the BU Art Gallery’s installation, it’s distilled into its simplest form — shapes.

Rachael Arauz, guest curator of The [...]Shape of Abstraction, has created a survey of artists from the 1930s onward, including Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Nozkowski, Franz Kupka, Ralph Coburn, and Burgoyne Diller. Their works pop with colorful squares, circles, triangles, and free-form shapes.

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