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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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 :)