Agnes Martin: Play

Agnes Martin - Play, 1966
acrylic paint on canvas

Agnes Martin (1912, 2004) worked up to the end of her life as an artist/hermit in New Mexico, reclused at the foot of the mountains of Sangre de Cristo.

(Image of Sangre de Cristo)

She was considering her artworks to be Minimalist only apparently. Actually she was very personal in her paintings, and the subtle colors within her grids were conveying her spiritual quest for the Taoist truth: to understand your path within Nature in order to become part of the creative drive of nature.

So, her aim was not to represent Nature, as she was an Abstractionist. On the other hand, her aim was not to trace a network of lines and stop shortly, as Minimalists were doing. Her aim was to become - through abstraction - creative part of Nature.

Here is another work of Agnes Martin:

Untitled No. 3, 1998
acrylic and graphite on linen

(Hirshhorn Museum)
(Contemporary Art)