In the early 1960s, Agnes Martin’s geometric compositions evolved into what would later be seen as her signature style: the square grid. Referring to these paintings, the critic Lucy Lippard described them as ‘legendary examples of an unrepetitive use of a repetitive medium’. More and more I excluded from my paintings all curved lines, until finally my…
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ART CRITICISM: “A TERM I KIND OF LIKE”
from Gilda Williams: How to Write About Contemporary Art See also Slow Muse for a short note on Williams’ book
Art Criticism: “A Term I’ve Always Kind of Disliked”
“…[M]y 50 years of art writing have often been motivated by a desire to escape the art world. I’m … pleased that the award is for art writing and not art criticism, a term I’ve always kind of disliked, since most of what I know about art I learned from artists, and artists from pretty…
Eva Hesse & ‘the total absurdity of life’
Guardian critic Jonathan Jones has written an interesting piece called: Art criticism and the pleasure principle. His text made me think about art that I really love (beyond intellectualism…?) Today I will present you for one of my absolute favorite artists: Don’t ask what it means or what it refers to. Don’t ask what the…
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