Agnes Martin

This is a research blog for ART 315, exploring the art and life of Agnes Martin.

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"The value of art is in the observer."

Agnes Martin

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Influenced by the vast landscape she grew up in, Canadian born, Vancouver raised Martin is often catagorizeed as a minimalist due to her her sparse, paired down artistic style. She didn’t believe her work fit into that genre, stating: “The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.”

Her work was heavily focused on lines and grids, using color sparingly. All of her paintings retain small flaws, purposefully left, that bring a humanness and intimacy to the strict grids.

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1963

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"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."

Agnes Martin

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Agnes Martin began making art in the early 1940s, while living in New York. She constructed her paintings on a rational grid system, superimposing a network of penciled lines and later colored bands on fine-grained canvas stained with washes of color. These paintings were influential on the development of Minimalism in the USA.

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Agnes Martin, Aspiration, 1960 Ink on paper, 11 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches (29.8 x 23.8 cm)

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This is a research blog for ART 315, exploring the art and life of Agnes Martin.