The Islands
01/01/1961View on timeline
The Islands
c.1961
acrylic, graphite, canvas
Take The Islands (1961). Against a buff-coloured ground, its neat pencilled lines form a successions of tiny boxes. With the exception of its border, which resembles the fringe of a rug, these elegant rows have been seeded with hundreds of tiny paired dots of pale yellow paint, which from a distance translate into a shimmering veil. Everything is relentlessly the same, and yet out of this sameness arises an image unlike anything that had gone before.
- Olivia Laing, on The Guardian
Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert, by Olivia Laing
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