"I would like to somewhat dispel this impression that she [agnes Martin] was some ascetic saint of the desert. She was more complicated than that and more sophisticated than that. I'm leery of sweeping her up in this celebration of artists, these artists who are self-trained or outsider, or beyond the pale of cosmopolitan art and life, and that's their merit. I think her mental illness [schizophrenia] is liable to enforce that impulse and I think that would be a mistake. It's not who she was. It was part of her life, but it didn't define her."
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Quote of Nancy Princenthal, (author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, Thames and Hudsons, 2015; as cited in 'What the world misunderstands about artist Agnes Martin and how her biographer unearthed her story', interviewed by Carolina A. Miranda, in Q&A, 12 April 2016
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Agnes Martin
Agnes Bernice Martin (22 March 1912 – 16 December 2004), born in Canada, was an American abstract painter. Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist artist like Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist artist.
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