Believing beauty to the most important subject in art, Agnes Martin sought to express sublime reality—to reflect the notion that beauty exists in our mind as an innate idea, and that its existence is stable, but that our awareness of it fluctuates. “We may be looking at the ocean when we are aware of beauty, but it is not the ocean,” she said. Influenced by artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, Martin adopted a visual language of biomorphic abstraction and geometry as vehicles for spiritual content. Here, through the use of points of lines, Martin emphasizes the grid in order to depict immaterial perfection.