Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.

Colour and shape Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries.

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Hence the title of the exhibition is ‘Absent/Present’, he said. The abstract art, according to Qazi Azmat Isa, former head of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, is very provocative.

Much of his art is created from recycled and reworked metal. Rusted iron is cut and bent into flowers; old propane tanks are torched into delightful jack-o’-lantern faces.

Since the late 1960s, Jacksonville businessman and arts patron Preston Haskell has been assembling one of the finest privately held collections of abstract art in the country. Now 27 paintings from… ...