One of the most singular voices in the history of American Abstraction, Agnes Martin’s work remains illusive, beguiling and at times baffling. Martin asks us to step away from the bustle and stress of everyday life, and enter her world. A world, where she searches for beauty through lines, bands, pale palettes and grids. These are paintings that whisper from the walls, gently drawing us towards a certain stillness, a quietness that can be hard to find in our modern lives. Join Nick and I as we curate a playlist to accompany today’s enigmatic painting.

Today's Painting

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-untitled-5-ar00177

Today’s Playlist

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) America from West Side Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e2igZexpMs

J.S Bach (1685-1760) Aria from Goldberg Variations

https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/artist/1fcUJdheEZjdQ4ZGKqhJhg?si=13MDdlsfRuaXdp1aZPto5g

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) The King of Denmark for Percussion (Percussion Colin Frank, recording engineer, Jordan Strum).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kuYk2N9dTns

Further looking and listening

Agnes Martin ‘Friendship’ 1963

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79842

Documentary ‘With my back to the World’

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/withmybacktotheworld

Works we’ve been to see recently

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/recherche?terms=ellsworth%20kelly

https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/in-the-studio/gerhard-richter

If you’d like to know more about us

http://rachelrowntree.com/

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