1. Agnes martin
... gave up painting in 1967 and moved to Cuba, New Mexico. "Every day I suddenly felt I wanted to die and it was connected with painting," she explained, as quoted in World Artists 1950-1980. "It took me several years to find out that the cause was an overdeveloped sense of responsibility." In her six years ... 1987). Thus, in Grey Geese Descending (1985) she tried to express, in her words, "the emotions we have when we feel" the birds' descent. Numerous quotations from the artist's writings were published in the catalogue that accompanied her only American retrospective exhibition to date...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate