Artist research

           

Ignacio Itturia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1949. He is a contemporary artist known for his nautical scenes. Itturia’s use of grid system does not always happen in his paintings. When he uses the grid system for his paintings, it reminds me a lot of movie scenes. With sculpture like figures moving differently in each squares is only allowed because of the grid system. Sometimes he would include the grid as part of his painting, which gave me architectural window like impression.

           

Agnes Martin is one of the depicted famous women artists for using the grid system. The lightly touched pencil lines across the canvas and the colors that often give impressions of being floating off are her signature style. Her use of grid system is development from the Minimalism, especially from Sol Lewitt and the composition is influenced from the ‘all over’-ness from the Abstract Expressionism.

            Nasreen Mohamedi, who have worked with Agnes Martin before was influenced by her grid system. Not only she was influenced by her, but also Paul Klee, who is very well known for his colored squares that depicts his emotions and mood when he listens to music. Mohamedi studies whole different surface studies through combining different imageries in one drawing using lines, which creates dark and rainy mood. She does many other representational works, but line drawings seem to be the most exhibited work of her arts.