JOAN MITCHELL/ DRAWING INTO PAINTING

Drawing into Painting is a survey of works by Joan Mitchell (1925-92) on canvas and paper from 1958 through 1992, the year of her de ath. For Mitchell, drawing and painting were related but autonomous activities. Her pastels can be as dense as oil paintings, and he r oil paintings can be as light and airy as watercolors. The book includes art from each decade of her career, with a formal range s panning flurried strokes and gestural lines of rhapsodic color, to darkly massed forms and complex, multi-panel formats. Mitchell's move to F...[Llegir més]