MARK BRADFORD

    link to video- https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s4/mark-bradford-in-paradox-segment/

     2 descriptive words/phrases- geometric, energetic, repetitive



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the artist uses the repeated geometric shapes of squares and some rectangles throughout his work.

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