![]() She engaged the full sweep of her body to create the towering canvas, in which pigment is applied in all directions, sweeping out over the surface of the canvas like plant tendrils searching out the light. 315).įrom intricate areas of high-peaked impasto to singular strokes of the palette-knife that verge on calligraphy to tender streams of pure liquid, Untitled illustrates the incredible dexterity with which Mitchell wielded her brush at this time. ![]() Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, New York, 2011, p. Executed during the same period as her celebrated Sunflower paintings, Untitled is one of her most ethereal, light-filled paintings to date – “a window thrown open,” as her biographer, Patricia Albers, once wrote (P. ![]() Rivulets of thinned-down pigment traverse down the painting’s surface, and wide passages of soft, white light impart a palpable inner glow. Spontaneous passages of yellow ochre are tackled with the palette knife to create sparkling passages that hover and float, accentuated with darker areas of cobalt-blue and aubergine. ![]() A monumental painting measuring over eight-and-a-half feet tall, Untitled demonstrates the increase in scale facilitated by the tall doors of her new studio there, along with a burgeoning mastery of new techniques. Exquisitely balanced and saturated with brilliant color, Joan Mitchell’s Untitled is suffused with the sun-drenched climate of the French countryside, as she began to settle into her new home at La Tour and its daily rhythms and routines. ![]()
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