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The Artist Project: Mark Bradford

Dec 7, 2015 3 MINUTES
"To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off."

Mark Bradford reflects on Clyfford Still in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Mark Bradford, born in 1961, is an American abstract painter.

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