painters Tubes magazines #16 | Página 4

On the other side of the Atlantic, American modernists such as Arthur Dove, John Marin,
Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keefe, embraced landscape painting and translated them
into abstract works of art. Richard Diebenkorn and Helen Frankenstein are among many
others who used the landscape to take the genre into another dimension, where only a mere
suggestion of the natural world remained. However, the landscape genré has remained the
peg on which most artists still hang their hats. Perhaps Agnes Martin is a perfect example
of a twentieth century modern painter who, despite following the trend towards minimalism,
gave acknowledgement to nature or natural forms in her paintings titles, even though her
simplistic horizontal line paintings suggested nothing of the kind, her love of the natural world
(via Buddhism) was a thread that never left her.
paintings this page:
Top: The Hay Wain
painted:1821.
bottom Barges on the
Stour (sketch) 1811.
Both works by
John Constable
b.1776. d.1837
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Museum London.