Atmosphere and Architectural Rhythm
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Joan Mitchell — Structure Held in Space
Gestural Lineages
Atlas Index:
Origin:
New York, Paris
Era:
1960–1965
Themes / Lineage:
surface-and-light
Field Notes:
gesture expanding internal weather
Quiet Modernism appears here as structure maintained through spatial suspension.

Joan Mitchell — Structure Held in Space

Atmosphere and Architectural Rhythm

Color masses remain separated.

Spacing sustains relation.

Structure holds in suspension.

What is set aside?
Joan Mitchell’s work is often approached through expressive intensity, but that emphasis does not organize this reading. Distance holds color apart without enclosure. What continues is relation sustained through suspension.

Joan Mitchell’s work is often approached through expressive intensity, but that emphasis does not organize this reading.

Distance holds color apart without enclosure.

What continues is relation sustained through suspension.

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Artist Overview

Joan Mitchell
Gesture as spatial structure

In Dialogue

Helen Frankenthaler
color as landscape
Brice Marden
Color as time
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