Before there was Joni Mitchell, there was Joan Mitchell. Joni, I grew up with and enjoy to this day, especially listening to “River” at Christmas time. Joan, I just met the other day at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which is putting on a huge exhibition of her work — 80 pieces spanning a five-decade career. I stopped by on the last day of a short holiday hop out to San Francisco, partly because I was looking for something to do, but also because I’ve spent most of my life trying to decipher abstract expressionism and I figured the more exposure I have to it the better chance I’ll experience some kind of epiphany. I won’t say I had a breakthrough at MOMA, but I came away in awe of Mitchell’s energy, ambition and vision.
Joan Mitchell: The Poetry of Painting
Joan Mitchell: The Poetry of Painting
Joan Mitchell: The Poetry of Painting
Before there was Joni Mitchell, there was Joan Mitchell. Joni, I grew up with and enjoy to this day, especially listening to “River” at Christmas time. Joan, I just met the other day at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which is putting on a huge exhibition of her work — 80 pieces spanning a five-decade career. I stopped by on the last day of a short holiday hop out to San Francisco, partly because I was looking for something to do, but also because I’ve spent most of my life trying to decipher abstract expressionism and I figured the more exposure I have to it the better chance I’ll experience some kind of epiphany. I won’t say I had a breakthrough at MOMA, but I came away in awe of Mitchell’s energy, ambition and vision.