WOMEN IN THE ARTS ...JOAN MITCHELL, ONE OF THE GIANTS!
Mitchell Mitchell Mitchell This is the first posting on the subject of WOMEN IN THE ARTS. I will be blogging intermittently about this subject which is, of course, dear to my heart! I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM MY READERS, (2,000 in less than two months! yay!) FROM ABOUT TWENTY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ON THIS SUBJECT. PLEASE COMMENT! In 1989, a group of women plastered posters across New York. "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?", the slogan asked. The Guerrilla Girls, as the activists…
Tougher than the Rest: Joan Mitchell's Tree Paintings and Black Drawings
There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities shift from a dominant mode expression to something altogether different.
