Finally, in her mid-40s, which was in the late '50s, she found a style of painting and a subject - positive feelings - that would sustain her for the rest of her life.We know what companionship is, we know what it feels like, but what does the sensation of mutual affection actually look like? It's not something we spend much time thinking about, unlike Agnes Martin who contemplated the manifestation of our inner sensations for five decades.
It turns out Friendship is far from superficial. It has depth and breadth and intelligence. But, most of all, it has feeling. There is little doubt that her fragile mental state informed her paintings. She was seeking tranquillity and order among chaos; to create images of beauty and happiness to dispel dark thoughts. She did so with a form of meditation, the purpose of which was to banish the act of thinking entirely. Her mind, once cleared, waited patiently in a semi-trance for an image to appear in her a head - an"inspiration" - which would show her the next painting to make.
Agnes Martin didn't so much get by without mod cons, but without any cons whatsoever. She lived alone on an isolated mesa in New Mexico with no running water or mains electricity. Admittedly, she did own a bath. Not tucked away in a cosy corner of her adobe shack, mind you, but outside in the yard. She would fill it with buckets of cold water at 10am and hope that by 4pm, shortly before the sun went down, it would be warm enough to bathe in.
I saw her exhibition at the Tate Modern a year or two ago and the room with the white paintings was the most calming, still and meditative place I’ve ever sat.
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Friendship (1963) is an early foray into her quest to make our feelings visible. It is the product of decades of trial and error that saw Agnes Martin go from figurative painting to Rothko-like floating colour fields. Martin was influenced by the (1/2)
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