Only fools want to be famous ... The Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis (a Black American) befriended and mentored him; so did Willem de Kooning (a white European). Art allowed Whitten to ...

Famous Black artists have changed the landscape of modern and classic art ... in the White House Collection (her piece, “Resurrection,” was unveiled there in 2015). Abstract art pioneer ...

They were always painting white ... 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 ...

one of the most famous nude female backs of all time – the French Neo-Classical master Jean-Dominique Ingres rendered the image in black and white to demonstrate his mastery of painting ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... were exhibited in December 1915. He called his famous Black Square the ‘zero of form’, the beginning of a new, non-objective reality.