I’ve been thinking of writing about art for some time and have finally decided to jump in. As a writer, I’ve been a playwright and a technical writer in the past – my plays can be read at www.kencrost.net – but my interest in writing for art came about from my curiosity about where abstract art came from. How did that art form develop and why did it start so suddenly in the later part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries? These are topics I plan on delving into in