This can be seen in the Pompidou Centre's current exhibition of abstract art, covering Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl group, led by another Dutchman, Theo van Doesburg. A series of ...

the drawing’s abstract nature offers no clues. And that raises a fascinating question about the history of art. Whereas the humans living in South Africa 100,000 years ago were using technology ...

They also died in the same year, 1944, by which time each had developed a unique abstract style. Both worked in an era coming to terms with huge advances in microscopy, radiography and photography.