Mitchell, Joan (1926–92). Painter and printmaker
A skillful and passionate abstract painter, from the 1950s onward she resolutely sustained *abstract expressionism’s gestural energy in the face of changing taste. Her brilliantly colored, sensuous, and often grandly scaled works feature tangled brushstrokes in variously lyrical, elegiac, stormy, or even desolate moods. The artist’s response to the light and colors observed in landscape inspired much of her work. While living in France during most of her career, she remained connected with the living tradition of chromatic expression embodied in the work of such artists as ... ...
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