That spirit is kept alive also via the incorporation of other techniques: airy, expressive fields of stained painting evoking his
light - filled
colour fields, stencilled patterns and
outlined shapes recalling the seminal Map Paintings, an underlying geometric rigour and structural complexity which has encompassed his career
in the interplay between rectangular and circular forms.
Agnes Martin has described her paintings as being about «
light, lightness, about merging, about formlessness»» The horizontal lines of delicate
colour with pencil
outlines seen
in this painting are typical of Martin's work.