Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... Mondrian painted his first purely abstract work, Composition in Line, and by 1919 had fully developed an abstract visual language ...

Line drawing and abstract expression of the human form are nothing new ... from cushions to art prints, with this distinctive style which usually depicts a woman’s face in just a few features.

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience ... "Our ...