From MOMA’s website on “The Tree” (a link to the full page is below):
Martin once said, “I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our mind but that the paintings are very far from being perfect . . .” Close examination of the surface reveals subtle tension between the grid’s regularity and the wavering of Martin’s drawn lines. She created this six-foot-square canvas while standing, and used a metal ruler to guide her hand. Though the painting is titled The Tree, she remarked years later that her paintings are “not really about nature. It is not what is seen—it is what is known forever in the mind.”
Information on Agnes Martin’s “The Tree”
OLIVER DUBON 