Only fools want to be famous (avoid at all cost ... why the rediscovery narratives that have burdened so many artists — and Black abstract artists in particular — are so problematic ...

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) is a famous Black female artist with a knack for combining abstract and figurative styles, plus African and Mexican art traditions, to create sculptures and prints ...

All three artists are currently in their 70s. They are abstract conceptual contemporary artists who happen to be black. “The work is not an African American abstraction,” Sanford said.

Kehinde Wiley is a famous black artist who reimagined the Western ... is now recognized as a groundbreaking abstract artist, yet she remained largely unknown for decades. Klint’s career kicked ...

Probably the most famous figure in “Magnetic Fields ... And as Lowery Stokes Sims notes, a certain tradition of black activism also considered abstract art too ingratiating to mainstream ...

Then I learned about the Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, and of Kehinde Wiley, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and felt more seen. They helped inspire me to paint abstract pictures ...

features 81 works of art by five generations of Black artists that have revolutionized abstract art since the 1940s, including Carter, Hutson, and Little. This program is supported by the Ronald M.

Pierre Soulages, one of the most famous French ... able to reinvent black by revealing the light," French president Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter following news of the artist's death.