One of my favorite places to see Agnes Martin’s paintings ... Martin’s paintings—abstract and distilled, with their resonant line, shape, and grid—inspire such feelings.

The question of how Agnes Martin arrived at the grid, and what she drew from those ... But to get at the particular quality of Martin’s paintings from the 1960s on, it is necessary to look ...

As you walk into Agnes Martin at LACMA, you are immediately faced with a choice ... (In the London exhibition, a 1963 grid painting was executed in gold leaf, a gorgeous piece that recalled temples ...

“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the ... “In the face of all this really loud, bold art, Agnes Martin creates something that is defiantly quiet, defiantly calm in a ...

For her, the axial grid was the picture ... more can be found in Nancy Princenthal’s thoughtful tome Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, published last year. Martin was drawn to the plain-spoken ...

The daughter of a Canadian wheat farmer, the American painter Agnes Martin started on her path to fame in the 1960s with her vast, austere, grid-based paintings. In the first major museum ...

The first retrospective of Agnes Martin’s (1912–2004 ... Martin’s development of the grid marked a crossroads in the history of abstract painting. By gently inscribing penciled lines over subtle ...

By 1960, she had developed her signature grid-pattern works—radical presentations ... a personal conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art. The Guggenheim presentation of Agnes Martin is ...

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