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Google Arts & Culture - Colombian artist Fanny Sanín became a pioneer of the geometric abstraction movement and a key figure in modern Latin American art. Her symmetrical design motifs are characterized by blocky, simplified shapes consisting of two to five colors. Though they vary in size and composition, each of Sanín’s paintings share the artist’s unique aesthetic. Her cohesive geometric works evoke a sense of calm in their methodical construction. Born in 1938, Sanín grew

WASHINGTON —The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) presents Equilibrium: Fanny Sanín, on view July 14–October 29, 2017. This spotlight exhibition, featuring five paintings and more than 30 preliminary drawings by Fanny Sanín (b. 1938), invites viewers into the artist’s meticulous, intuitive process, as she creates compositions of geometric forms with precisely defined fields of color. Equilibrium explores Sanín’s methodical process through a selection of some of h