{"id":1227,"date":"2021-09-10T08:09:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T04:13:00","slug":"joan-mitchells-resplendent-paintings-how-the-abstract-expressionist-resolved-the-unresolvable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/joan-mitchells-resplendent-paintings-how-the-abstract-expressionist-resolved-the-unresolvable\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Mitchell\u2019s Resplendent Paintings: How the Abstract Expressionist Resolved the Unresolvable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no turning back when, in 1950,\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_joan-mitchell\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"joan-mitchell\">Joan Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0completed\u00a0<em>Figure and City<\/em>, a painting in which an abstracted figure emerges from the canvas amid a crush of cuboidal forms. Prior to this breakthrough, Mitchell had been working in a semi-figurative mode, producing still lifes and urban landscapes in which anything and everything could be reduced to geometric shapes. Then, after\u00a0<em>Figure and City<\/em>, she leapt into the void and began working in abstraction. \u201cI knew it was the last figure I would ever paint,\u201d Mitchell said of the female shown in\u00a0<em>Figure and City<\/em>. \u201cI just knew. And it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the decade afterward, Mitchell would come to refine the style for which she is now known. Many of the canvases she produced during the \u201950s feature dazzling arrays of brushstrokes assembled against stark white backgrounds. Mitchell always made sure to leave her paint chunky and her colors pure and bright. The hues that she used would grow hotter as her career went on, and her gestural strokes would sometimes coalesce to form masses that appear to cluster in the center of her canvases. Impressionism and poetry, as well as nature and the cast of art-world A-listers that surrounded her, haunt her works\u2014though their subject matter is often only revealed by their titles.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was considered one of the most important members of the postwar movement of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_abstract-expressionism\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"abstract-expressionism\">Abstract Expressionism<\/a>. This was the case even during her day, when female artists rarely achieved widespread fame. In 1972, critic Peter Schjeldahl, for example, called Mitchell \u201ca master of many oil\u2010painting techniques who seems always to be pushing her mastery to the limit, willfully throwing it against \u2018impossible\u2019 problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell\u2019s ability to resolve the unresolvable with her innovative painterly techniques will be on display in a long-awaited retrospective opening this week at the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a>. (Curated by Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel, the show will also travel to the\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_baltimore-museum-of-art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"baltimore-museum-of-art\">Baltimore Museum of Art<\/a>, which co-organized it, and to the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.) Below, a look at why Mitchell\u2019s piquant abstractions continue to intrigue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/ \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   aligncenter size-full wp-image-1234602699 lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/02_Mitchell_City_Landscape_1955.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/02_Mitchell_City_Landscape_1955.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/02_Mitchell_City_Landscape_1955.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/02_Mitchell_City_Landscape_1955.jpg?resize=400,401 400w\" alt=\"An abstract painting featuring a mass of red, blue, pink, and brown strokes in the center of an off-white background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1027\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Joan Mitchell,\u00a0<em>City Landscape<\/em>, 1955.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">\u00a9ESTATE OF JOAN MITCHELL\/PHOTO AIMEE MARSHALL\/ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Painting \u2018the Moment\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The greatest defenders of Abstract Expressionism preferred a style that has been termed all-over abstraction\u2014think of the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock or the epic, elegiac black-and-white canvases of Franz Kline. A number of Mitchell\u2019s canvases stand apart from that style, however, featuring at their core swirling masses that appear to vibrate with life. \u201cClement Greenberg said there should never be a central image so I decided to make one,\u201d Mitchell once said, referring to the art critic who was Abstract Expressionism\u2019s most vocal exponent.<\/p>\n<p>The basis for Mitchell\u2019s \u201ccentral images\u201d changed depending on her locale, her mood, and the company she kept. But trees were among the constants in her oeuvre. In\u00a0<em>Grandes Carri\u00e8res<\/em>\u00a0(1961\u201362), for example, a swirling mixture of burnt umber, mint green, and deep blue looms before the viewer, appearing to float above, or stand before, a messy white background dripped and splashed with yellow. Only upon further study of Mitchell\u2019s oeuvre would one be able to discover its referent: cypress trees in the Grandes Carri\u00e8res district of Paris, which the artist frequented.<\/p>\n<p>For Mitchell, trees acted as symbols of mortality and stand-ins for her loved ones. But viewers would not necessarily know this just by looking. During the age of Abstract Expressionism, content was considered anathema. Form\u2014the ways materials were wielded and came to coalesce\u2014was believed to be the most important way to make an artistic statement. Mitchell appears to have subscribed to that idea in her work, but unlike some of her colleagues, she also prioritized visual pleasure. In 1957, for a famed\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>\u00a0profile titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitchell Paints a Picture<\/a>,\u201d she told critic Irving Sandler, \u201cI am not a member of the make-it-ugly school.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/ \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234602701 lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12_Mitchell_Sunflowers_1990-91-1.jpg?w=1200\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12_Mitchell_Sunflowers_1990-91-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12_Mitchell_Sunflowers_1990-91-1.jpg?resize=400,281 400w\" alt=\"A two-part abstract painting with large splotch-like forms composed of blue, yellow, and green paint.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"842\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Joan Mitchell,\u00a0<em>Sunflowers<\/em>, 1990\u201391.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">\u00a9ESTATE OF JOAN MITCHELL\/COLLECTION OF JOHN CHEIM<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>A Force of Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell frequently returned to two broad subjects throughout her career: poetry and nature, both of which could be seen as being related in her work. The former had been with Mitchell from a young age. Her mother, Marion Strobel, was herself a poet and an editor of\u00a0<em>Poetry<\/em>\u00a0magazine. When Mitchell was 10 years old, one of her poems was printed in that journal, with lines like \u201cThe rusty leaves crunch and crackle, \/ Blue haze hangs from the dimmed sky, \/ The fields are matted with sun-tanned stalks\u2009\u2014 \/ Wind rushes by.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/ \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   alignright size-medium wp-image-1234602700 lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/21_Portrait-of-Joan-Mitchell-in-her-studio_1956.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/21_Portrait-of-Joan-Mitchell-in-her-studio_1956.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/21_Portrait-of-Joan-Mitchell-in-her-studio_1956.jpg?resize=400,633 400w\" alt=\"A white woman seated on the floor with her legs crossed beside several abstract paintings, some of which are on the floor as well.\" width=\"400\" height=\"633\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Joan Mitchell, 1956.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">PHOTO LOOMIS DEAN\/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nature, too, figured in her work, whether in the form of still lifes or abstracted landscapes. \u201cMan made a city; nature grows,\u201d she once wrote in a letter to Sandler. \u201cI see it all as nature. I look at it all as what I see.\u201d Whether she was painting bridges spotted from her New York apartment window or the vibrant scenery she saw in the north of France, Mitchell always cast an admiring eye toward her surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Many have likened Mitchell\u2019s work to Impressionism\u2014a fitting comparison given that she spent significant amounts of time in the historic stomping grounds of that earlier movement\u2019s foremost names. In 1959, Mitchell took up residence in the French commune of V\u00e9theuil, where Claude Monet had once worked. Mitchell\u2019s large-scale, multi-canvas paintings often communicated the impact of time on nature, just as Monet\u2019s cathedrals and gardens did.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent van Gogh\u2019s work also loomed large over her oeuvre. Particularly in the later stages of her career, Mitchell made use of eye-popping shades of yellow and blue that she lathered on thick, allowing her paint to remain chunky. Then there are the sunflowers that recur throughout Mitchell\u2019s work, albeit in abstract ways. In the three-part painting\u00a0<em>Untitled<\/em>\u00a0(1969), for example, one giant yellow flower sprouts of a mass of off-white at the center, its petals rendered as globs of yellow, purple, and blue. (Mitchell, who was far-sighted, often had to stand back to see her paintings in the greatest detail, and viewing them at a remove can often bring out previously unseen flourishes.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/ \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   aligncenter size-large wp-image-1234602705 lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19_Mitchell_Weeds_1976.jpg?w=1200\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19_Mitchell_Weeds_1976.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19_Mitchell_Weeds_1976.jpg?resize=400,282 400w\" alt=\"A two-part abstract painting composed of intersecting orange, blue, and white strokes.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"846\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Joan Mitchell,\u00a0<em>Weeds<\/em>, 1976.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">\u00a9ESTATE OF JOAN MITCHELL\/ PHOTO IAN LEFEBVRE, ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO\/HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Rosa Malheur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much like her Abstract Expressionist colleagues Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner, Mitchell was forced to confront her status as a woman among a group of men who often received greater acclaim\u2014though she was certainly recognized during her lifetime. Before she turned 40, she had appeared in the Venice Biennale in Italy and Documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as multiple solo shows at New York\u2019s vaunted Stable Gallery that received positive notices. While in France during the \u201950s and \u201960s, she consorted with figures like Shirley Jaffe, Simon Hanta\u00ef, Alberto Giacometti, and others. Along with the artist Jean-Paul Riopelle, with whom she led a long and torrid romantic relationship, Mitchell even hosted some of them for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>But all the while, Mitchell was often forced to contend with being labeled a \u201cwoman artist.\u201d \u201cWomen couldn\u2019t paint and women didn\u2019t paint and all that sort of thing,\u201d Mitchell told art historian Linda Nochlin of the art world in the postwar era. One time, when a man at a party labeled Mitchell and de Kooning \u201cfemale artists,\u201d Mitchell said, \u201cElaine, let\u2019s get the hell out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/ \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   alignright size-medium wp-image-1234602707 lrv-u-max-width-100p\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/10_Mitchell_Rock_Bottom_1960.jpg?w=400\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 87.5rem) 1000px, (min-width: 78.75rem) 681px, (min-width: 48rem) 450px, (max-width: 48rem) 250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/10_Mitchell_Rock_Bottom_1960.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/10_Mitchell_Rock_Bottom_1960.jpg?resize=400,459 400w\" alt=\"An abstract painting with a mass of blue and red strokes at the center.\" width=\"400\" height=\"459\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-font-size-12 lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"lrv-u-font-size-14@desktop\">Joan Mitchell,\u00a0<em>Rock Bottom<\/em>, 1960\u201361.<\/span><cite class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-color-grey\">\u00a9ESTATE OF JOAN MITCHELL\/BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although feminists during the 1970s sought to reimagine the ways Mitchell\u2019s art had been discussed, the artist herself initially bristled at the notion that she should be considered apart from her male colleagues. When curator Marcia Tucker organized an exhibition of Mitchell\u2019s art at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1972, Mitchell wrote, referring to herself, \u201cJoan feels Miss Whitney is using her for Women\u2019s Liberation.\u201d A few years later, she had come around and made a point of supporting budding women artists. In 1976, she began subscribing to the\u00a0<em>Women Artists Newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These days, Mitchell\u2019s reputation has continued to shift as critical attention and market interest around her work continues to rise. There have been books about her, including a biography by Patricia Albers in 2011 (<em>Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life<\/em>). Mary Gabriel\u2019s recent\u00a0<em>Ninth Street Women<\/em>, which chronicles Mitchell\u2019s rise alongside other women in her cohort, is currently being developed into a television series. And earlier this year, L\u00e9vy Gorvy gallery\u00a0sold\u00a0a Mitchell painting at Art Basel Hong Kong for $20 million\u2014a price that would have seemed unthinkable for a female Abstract Expressionist even a decade prior.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell\u2019s sudden resurgence has been considered an example of the ways art history is changing. \u201cThere\u2019s a reexploration of historical narratives that are important to our history and our culture that is happening right now,\u201d Christina Blatchford, CEO of the Joan Mitchell Foundation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told\u00a0<em>Artnet News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2018, \u201cand that\u2019s coming together with recognition of the quality of Mitchell\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no turning back when, in 1950,\u00a0Joan Mitchell\u00a0completed\u00a0Figure and City, a painting in which an abstracted figure emerges from the canvas amid a crush of cuboidal forms. 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