I remembered Agnes Martin from an art lesson a few years ago and thought I would research her again for her process art.
In the video above by Tate Shots, Martin is described as "sitting in her rocking chair until the idea appeared in her head and she called this inspiration. The sort of presentation seemingly automatically of the image fully formed in her head. It appeared in her head at a very small scale like a little postage stamp, and then when you look at her notebooks you see how she draws the postage stamp sized picture and then does complicated maths to scale it up to meet the self-defined limitations of her canvas".
The process behind Martins work here is phenomenal. The sitting and waiting for inspiration aspect isn't something we usually think about as artists, but sometimes this is true and we do just find inspiration, almost out of no where it would seem. Martin makes this part of her process and really focuses on the waiting process of the inspiration, and then uses everything to create imagery from the 'inspiration' that comes to her inside her head.
When people asked Martin 'what are these paintings? Martin replied" "From music people accept pure emotion, but from art they demand an explanation." And Martins paintings are pure emotion.
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