... diverse ways, a break with abstract expressionism. As more than one critic has noted, Miss Martin's work of the time does have certain affinities with Kelly's brightly colored paintings of geometrical shapes. For example, her twelve-inch-square painting Islands No. 1 (1960), a work in oil and pencil on canvas that was included in the Whitney show, consists of a rectangular grid ... to paint biomorphic abstractions with a line that became progressively lighter and more fluid. Within a few years, however, she abandoned figurative imagery for subjective, abstract landscape forms that gradu...

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