Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin was a Canadian-American abstract painter. She is often referred to as a minimalist and an abstract expressionist. The work that I'm interested in is her grid like paintings created with acrylic paint and graphite. To me the painting looks like it could be a template or structure for something else, as opposed to the final product. The painting 'morning' is based on a rectangular system of coordinates. Yet it is also supposed to be about the happiness and bliss of the morning.

Morning 

1965

Acrylic Paint and graphite on canvas

support:1826 x 1819mm

frame: 1840 x 1832mm

vitrine: 2075 x 2070 x 90 mm

This work is not directly linked to mine. She is not creates portraits or any type of organic object with the lines like I am doing. Instead she is almost creating something from her imagination. Yet it s similar to my work in the fact that we are both using the medium of lines. Similarly I want my drawing to be structural looking, almost like the blueprints an architect would draw when they are designing a new building.