Sentences with phrase «minimalist pencil grids»

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This selection of paintings from the 1970s shows a range of Minimalist - inspired experimentations with abstraction: hazy, striped plexiglas paintings by Thomas Chimes (1921 - 2009), a Day - Glo round - edged canvas by Ralph Humphrey (1932 - 1990), atmospheric grid - based oil paintings by Warren Rohrer (1927 - 1995), subtly - lined acrylic monochromes by Sean Scully (b. 1945), and a pencil drawing by Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007), are seen in relation to more recent paintings by Lee Ufan (b. 1936) and Pat Steir (b. 1940), who continue to explore the legacies of line and gesture in abstract painting today.

I had always considered her classic, proto - Minimalist pictures from the Sixties — characterised by subtle, ghostly colours and the use of minute elements repeated within a grid often drawn onto a square canvas with a pencil — as ascetic and restrained: the epitome of cerebral self - control.

• MINIMALISTS (1960s, 1970s) Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004) American Minimalist painter; hand - drawn pencil grids on gesso, acrylics / oils.

Important minimalists include Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), noted for pencil grids; and Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67) noted for his black - on - black paintings.

Agnes Martin is primarily known for her minimalist grid paintings that turn hand - drawn pencil lines and thin washes of paint into luminous moments of transcendence.

Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004) Minimalist painter, noted for her pencilled grids.