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Joan Mitchell
Untitled, ca.1958 – 1959
Oil on canvas and board
197.5 x 174 cm / 77 ¾ x 68 ½ in
© Estate of Joan Mitchell
Courtesy Private Collection, Paris and
Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Genevieve Hanson
on view 2/2/17 – 4/1/17inNothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 – 1962atHauser & Wirth, 32 East 69th Street, New York.
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“My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields. It’s more like a poem…and that’s what I want to paint.” Today MOCA remembers the great abstract expressionist and feminist painter Joan Mitchell, who was born on this day in 1925. Mitchell deeply associated her paintings with poetry, using poems as inspiration prior to painting, and one can identify the poetic forms of her wild yet controlled artwork. Over 20 years later after her untimely passing (due to lung cancer), Joan Mitchell’s work is as acclaimed and respected as ever. Last year, David Zwirner gallery in New York, who represents Mitchell, showed Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me, the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s multi-paneled paintings.
Image and quotes via CR Fashion Book
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Official portraits, casual snapshots, documentary photos, and publicity stills all attest to the pervasiveness of smoking in the art world of the second half of the 20th century. In fact, it’s hard to find images of certain postwar artists without a cigarette in hand. In striking contrast, today, even the artist would be forbidden from smoking next to his/her own work, which is on balance good, from a conservation and public health point of view. The silent excising, editing and effacing of smoking from photographs, which one encounters routinely is, however, deplorable from a historical point of view.
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