Untitled

Artist Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992)

Date1952-1953

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions77 1/2 x 71 1/2 in. (196.9 x 181.6 cm)
Framed: 87 in. × 81 in. × 2 3/4 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Signedl.r.: J Mitchell

On View

On view

Label TextStreaks, dribbles, and swaths of paint engulf the surface of this painting. The now-frozen marks tell a story of the expressive actions needed to make them. For Joan Mitchell painting was time travel: “I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me—and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would like more to paint what it leaves me with.”

Vetas, gotas y franjas de pintura envuelven la superficie de este cuadro. Las marcas, ahora congeladas, cuentan la historia de las acciones expresivas necesarias para crearlas. Para Joan Mitchell, pintar era como viajar en el tiempo: “Pinto del recuerdo de los paisajes que llevo conmigo, y de los sentimientos que recuerdo de ellos, que, por supuesto, se van transformando. Sin duda, nunca podría ser un espejo de la naturaleza. Prefiero pintar lo que me deja”.