1. Agnes martin
... , thoughtful distillation. Never purely mechanical (as the grid form would suggest) or impersonal, it is her form of expressionist painting. Although in her works she has seemed to be seeking the classical ideal of perfection in pure geometry, she has often asserted, in essays and in interviews, that she does not paint "scientific discoveries or philosophies" but what she has called "the holiday ... state of mind." However it is defined, her paintings give an ineffable pleasure to those who allow themselves the ... constituted a formal group, they represented, in their diverse ways, a b...
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