Untitled
Mohamedi’s practice demonstrates a singular and sustained engagement with abstraction in post-Independence India. Influenced by her world travels, she was equally drawn to Mughal architecture, Indian classical music, and Italian neorealist cinema as she was to the work of Minimalist artist Agnes Martin, the architect Louis Kahn, the painter Paul Klee, and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Settling on a square format for her works in the 1970s, Mohamedi used a Rotring Rapidograph pen, as well as set squares, T squares, and rulers, to draw precise lines, sometimes incised into the paper. Demonstrating her skill and formal rigor, while clearly announcing her commitment to a pared-down aesthetic, the parallel and angled lines on this work stretch tautly across the page; the spaces between alternately reverberate or create horizons, planes, and depths.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Nasreen Mohamedi (Indian, 1937–1990)
- Date: ca. 1970
- Medium: Black ink, wash, and graphite on paper
- Dimensions: 18 3/4 × 18 3/4 in. (47.6 × 47.6 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.308
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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