Spend a few minutes diving into a work of art at the Modern in short videos narrated by docents. This week, docent Don Leu discusses Joan Mitchell's "Untitled," 1961.a
Pre Landscape? Or Post Landscape? For sure her emotions were evoked by nature and landscape. I think of her as invoking nature without representing it.
reading a great exhibition catalog by sf moma and bma curators that includes this among many other master works displayed in sf moma's travelling exhibition. i wish it could have stopped in ft. worth before going to paris
I swear to me, it looks like a back of a woman in the purple dress with black hair sitting in a chair reaching out doing something. With the looks of everything around her, she’s painting. Maybe it’s herself.
I also see a figures and faces within this and other pieces by Joan Mitchell. The purple figure in this one reads to me as the back of a kneeling geisha :)
In one of the photos you identify an individual as Lee Krasner. I believe it is Helen Frankenthaler
Pre Landscape? Or Post Landscape? For sure her emotions were evoked by nature and landscape. I think of her as invoking nature without representing it.
reading a great exhibition catalog by sf moma and bma curators that includes this among many other master works displayed in sf moma's travelling exhibition. i wish it could have stopped in ft. worth before going to paris
I swear to me, it looks like a back of a woman in the purple dress with black hair sitting in a chair reaching out doing something. With the looks of everything around her, she’s painting. Maybe it’s herself.
I also see a figures and faces within this and other pieces by Joan Mitchell. The purple figure in this one reads to me as the back of a kneeling geisha :)