By this time, Martin's representational works, including surrealistic oils as well as landscape and figurative watercolours, had been superceded by her new and highly simplified
abstract pictures marked by
square canvas
formats hosting all - over grids of pencil lines and monochromatic colour schemes.
But in the case of these paintings [Noah's portraits] especially the ones that are
square format there is an esoteric colorfield approach taken by Warhol, there is an esoteric color field approach taken by Francis Bacon, there's an esoteric
abstract approach taken out of [Jean - Michel] Basquiat.