Abstract painter Agnes Martin’s Signature Grid

Video (4:05): Can Stillness Be Seen? The Brilliance of Agnes Martin, a video by Sotheby’s about abstract painter Agnes Martin’s Signature Grid and her painting The Garden.

‘Serene, deliberate, and quietly radical. Agnes Martin’s The Garden radiates a meditative energy that resists interpretation yet compels reflection. Painted amid the vast light of New Mexico, the work’s soft pinks and blues evoke the shifting skies and desert plains that surrounded her. Here, Martin allowed her brushwork to surface, breaking from her usual restraint to reveal a subtler, more human hand. Beneath the calm symmetry lies a tension between precision and imperfection: a harmony that defines her lifelong pursuit of beauty as a state of mind rather than form.’ – Sotheby’s

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