Abstract art unlocks the truth about the universe

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjectiveAbstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a white surface, or a swirl of colour, mean something? But it can and it does, and the unlikely greatness of abstraction is one of the most moving achievements of modern times.The Whitechapel Gallery’s new-year exhibition Adventures of the Black Square explores the story of abstraction since Kazimir M