Painter Giorgio Griffa grew up in Turin, Italy, at a time of great experimentation with abstraction in art. Kicking off a day of abstraction-related fun, enjoy this selection of midcentury Italian drawings that anticipate Griffa’s interest in line, form, and positive and negative space, and then head up to the Lunder Center to view some more recent Italian abstraction in the special retrospective exhibition Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest.

Image: Liliana Cossovel, Abstract with Red, Yellow, and Black Figures (detail), 1954, pastel on paper. The Clark, gift of Mrs Hereward Lester Cooke, 1988.118