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“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

Agnes Martin’s grid paintings become stranger the longer you look at them. From a distance, the thin lines almost disappear, and the wide canvasses look blank. read more