Why We Make Art
Joan Mitchell is recognized as a principal figure – and one of the few female artists – in the second generation of American Abstract Expressionists. Her paintings are expansive, often covering two separate panels. Landscape was the primary influence on her subject matter. She painted on unprimed canvas or white ground with gestural, sometimes violent brushwork. She has described a painting as, "an organism that turns in space".
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