Director's Choice - Looking for the Mountain by Pat Steir
Object Details
- Creator
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Views
- 1,051
- Video Title
- Director's Choice - Looking for the Mountain by Pat Steir
- Description
- A visitor commented about this painting, "It has the feel of the Southwest." This was very astute, since Pat Steir's mountain paintings of the early 1970s were inspired by her visits to Agnes Martin in New Mexico. Both women are painters and poets, and both have studied nature and art long enough to abstract their common essence. Looking for the Mountain is a metaphor that works on many levels—linguistic, aesthetic, and philosophical.
- Video Duration
- 4 min 18 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington DC Gallery Place Portrait Lunder Luce Conservation Kogod sculpture statues web series short film museum landmark culture humanities visual arts
- Uploaded
- 2014-02-03T19:11:36.000Z
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- YouTube Videos
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- americanartmuseum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- YouTube Channel
- americanartmuseum
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Art, American
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- yt_KmvOVLplrRk
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