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MITCHELL Joan, born 1926, Chicago IL. - 1992, Paris. Russian born American painter. |
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spite of its lack of illusionistic imagery, Mitchell's canvases suggest
the forces of nature, which she interpreted and translated into dynamic
pictorial calligraphy. After studying art in her native Chicago, she arrived in New York City in 1948 and immersed herself in the avant-garde scene, quickly developing the bold, gestural style the won her early acclaim as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist. Her energetic and expressive painting provides us with emotional punch through color and form. Mitchell is concerned with the impact of color and line without subject matter. The viewer's response is therefore more direct - the color and paint application convey a mood to the viewer. This strictly emotional reaction allows the viewer to insert his/her own associations and imagination into the picture. A white ground crisscrossed by interlacing diagonal strokes became a frequent compositional motif, one that evoked memories of her youthful talent as an ice skater. Joan Mitchell, a member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionist painters, moved to New York in the late forties. There she met many of the Abstract Expressionist artists who greatly influenced her work, including de Kooning and Kline. She travelled to France many times in the fifties, where she became a prominent purveyor of American ideas about art. In fact, Mitchell developed a following in Europe before many of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists did. When the first generation of Abstract Expressionists concerned themselves with divorcing European influence and ideas, Mitchell ended up moving to France in 1959, disillusioned by Abstract Expressionism's diminishing status. There, she continued to explore the subjective territory of nature-based experience. She continued to work in her native American mode, becoming one of the best known American abstract painters, until her death in 1992. As she explained, 'I carry my landscape around with me.' |
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