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Marden Kent - (Broadcloth and Agriculture) - an English Village (UK) (0 words) |
 | Marden lies on the B2079 Goudhurst to Maidstone road. |
 | At the present time, Marden is mostly a commuter village with about 20% of its occupants working in London, and travelling via the quick Ashford line into the city, the remainder work in the surrounding area. |
 | Marden is in the middle of the rich farmland of the weald, and has many orchards, oast houses and old buildings surrounding the village. |
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Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Marden - Biography (453 words) |
 | It was at Yale that Marden developed the formal strategies that characterized his paintings of the following decades: a preoccupation with rectangular formats and the repeated use of a muted, extremely individualized palette. |
 | Marden made his first monochromatic single-panel painting in the winter of 1964. |
 | Marden spent the spring and summer of 1964 in Paris, where he was inspired by the work of Alberto Giacometti. |