These works relied on the repeated gesture of a paint - laden brush applied over
a grid penciled on the canvas.
Not exact matches
It present works in different media and formats that used found objects and geometric shapes, before she began making her visionary
pencilled grids on large, square
canvases.
Kettle's Yard is showing 10
canvases from her last years (she died in 2004 aged 92) alongside one well - known painting of 1965, the Tate's «Morning», and a suite of 30 screenprints titled «
On A Clear Day» — all of which represent
grids whose original ruled
pencil lines are reproduced with illusive accuracy.
Throughout the 1950s and «60s, she developed a signature
grid - pattern method consisting of horizontal and vertical lines hand drawn in
pencil on large square
canvases that, at first glance, seem to appear blank.
Flat geometric bars or
grids, often drawn in
pencil on 6 - foot square
canvases, are washed in thin oil paint.
Her paintings of the 1960s, which feature square formats,
grids,
penciled lines drawn
on canvas, as well as compositions with subtle variations in shade and hue, marked a crossroads in the history of abstraction.
The yellow, white, gray and raw
canvas grid painting, Untitled (1975, acrylic,
pencil and matte medium
on canvas, 60 x 60 inches), will be
on view in the exhibition.
It can also take 30 years to understand why an all - white painting by Robert Ryman or a
pencil grid on canvas by Agnes Martin is art.
Her paintings of the 1960s, which are distinguished by square formats,
grids,
penciled lines drawn
on canvas, and compositions with subtle variations in shade and hue, marked a crossroads in the history of abstraction.