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Agnes Martin (by Angela Moll)

Published April 6, 2008 Artist , Women in art , art history , contemporary art 10 Comments

Agnes Martin: rectangular grids within a square format. Simple, direct, reductive. She does away with composition, focal points, value contrast and strong color.

A modest room on a New Mexican mesa, a ruler in hand, Agnes Martin relentlessly explores the grid. She draws repeating lines over the entire surface, delicate and often barely visible. She treats all areas equally, no emphasis or contrast distract the viewer from the patterns of perfection residing in the human mind.

Friendship (1963)

Agnes Martin. (American, born Canada. 1912-2004). Friendship. 1963. Incised gold leaf and gesso on canvas, 6′ 3″ x 6′ 3″ (190.5 x 190.5 cm). Fractional gift of Celeste and Armand P. Bartos. © 2008 Estate of Agnes Martin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. http://www.moma.org

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Order and the Female Artist by Linda Frost

Published February 27, 2008 Women in art 3 Comments
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It is easy to make broad generalizations about gender influences in artwork. Easy, but is it accurate? Does the hunter/male mind produce and enjoy representational art more often than abstract art? Are the ancient cave paintings of horses and buffalo products of the male perspective? What about the countless statues and hieroglyphs? Does the female artist tend to produce art that is geometric, abstract and celebrates order? These are the questions I have been asking myself while looking at the designs made by Mbuti women on barkcloth. Continue reading ‘Order and the Female Artist by Linda Frost’

Painted and Quilted: Up for Discussion, by June Underwood

Published February 25, 2008 Art Ideas , Art Technique , Artist , Women in art , contemporary art , quilt art , textile art 6 Comments

A quick and dirty post this morning from June, since Kristin was unable to do one. I would like to have some continuation of a question that Terry’s last post and subsequent comments suggested. The question is — what are the differences between painting media and stitched textile media? Olga pointed out that making curves in textiles is less physical than doing so in paint, and I think that it’s much harder to make curves with textiles than with paint, and that the effect of the finished work differs subtly in the different media. Continue reading ‘Painted and Quilted: Up for Discussion, by June Underwood’

Ruth Asawa: A Life in Art, by pam rubert

Published January 30, 2008 Artist , Women in art , contemporary art 6 Comments
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I find it deepens my appreciation for the art, if I have an opportunity to study the life of an artist who also serves as an inspiring role model. Recently I found such an artist through the blog of Sculpturess.

Photo by Laurence Cuneo from www.ruthasawa.com

Ruth Asawa, a Japanese American artist, was born in 1926 in a farming community in southern California. Early she showed talent and motivation in art — but it was at age 16 when she was confined in the Japanese internments camps during World War II that she had the unusual opportunity to study drawing and design for five hours a day with three Walt Disney studio artists who were also internment prisoners and taught the camp children.

Following internment, Asawa was awarded a scholarship to attend the Black Mountain College in North Carolina to study with avant-garde artist Josef Albers from the Bauhaus in Germany and Buckminster Fuller, best known for inventing the geodesic dome.

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Published November 25, 2007 Women in art , art history 7 Comments

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Awelye 1989 90 x 60 cm

“. . .whole lot, that’s whole lot, . . . .That’s what I paint: whole lot. . . .” (Alhalkere Paintings from Utopia)

As some of you guessed last month , our mystery abstract painter is the indigenous artist from Central Australia, Emily Kame Kngwaarreye whose career as a painter spanned less than 8 years ( she was a batik artist for 12 years) but whose legacy includes almost 3,000 works. Continue reading ‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye’

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