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In <EM>After Botticelli</EM>, Marden adapts the serpentine lines of the Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli is celebrated for his use of line both to ornament and to convey movement-particularly when representing wind, water, and billowing drapery or hair. Here that line is utilized in a series of abstract etchings, whose twisting, desultory compositions create a sense of kinesthetic energy.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"<SPAN lang=EN>\r\n<P dir=ltr align=left>In the 1960s, Brice Marden emerged as a minimalist painter known for monochromatic color fields. After the artist visited Asia in the 1980s his work began to mimic the gestural brushed lines of Chinese calligraphy. In <EM>After Botticelli</EM> <SPAN lang=EN>Marden adapts the fluid lines of the Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. Here that line is twisted in a seemingly abstract manner, imparting a sense of expressive motion similar to Chinese brushwork. </P></SPAN></SPAN>","remarks":"Encounters"}],"datebegin":1992,"sortnumber":"1994   21xa    e","published_date":"2026-03-31 02:20:58.294786","objectid":18933,"dimensions":"plate (each): 22.6 x 29.8 cm. (8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in.)\r\nsheet (each): 68.5 x 53.7 cm. (26 15/16 x 21 1/8 in.)\r\nframe (each): 80.7 × 65.8 × 2.8 cm (31 3/4 × 25 7/8 × 1 1/8 in.)","on_view":false}