Gabriel. On Agnes Martin’s Only Complete Film: A Comparative Analysis between her Pictorial and Cinematographic Work
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https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2022.vi43.13926Keywords:
Agnes Martin, Experimental films, Gabriel, Painting, Visual arts, InnocenceAbstract
Gabriel is a 78-minute-long color film and the only complete video record signed by the iconic Canadian American painter Agnes Martin (1912-2004). The movie, filled with lyrical images of nature, vaguely follows a 10-year-old boy as he wanders through different landscapes of New Mexico. Low-budgeted, the film was shot with a handheld camera over a five-month period, with no script or storyboard, and was produced with an Arriflex camera on 35mm film. The movie is silent, except for the introduction of various excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Although considered an anomaly in the painter’s production and generally avoided in her retrospectives shows and other compendiums of her work, this text examines the 1976 experimental film in relation to her pictorial oeuvre, her poetic ideology and the themes of innocence and exultation that Martin so exhaustingly pursued as an artist.
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