Joan Mitchell was an American Multi-practice artist who specialised in areas such as painting, printmaking, pastel and pretty much anything that was made on paper. Mitchell was associated with the abstract expressionist movement despite having lived in France for a good portion of her career. Mitchell was one of the first female painters to gain critical and public acclaim for her works, and her artwork can now be seen in major museums around the globe. Her abstract way of working was heightened following her gaining a $2000 travel fellowship, allowing her to study in Paris and Provence in 1948-49. This abstract state of work would then follow her through the remainder of her artistic career. “Memories and the feelings she associated with remembered landscapes provided the primary source material for her work”
Joan Mithell’s work is good to look at during the Process into Image brief as her use of abstraction is a good inspiration for creating paintings throughout all of the weeks of the brief. Her careful use of colours makes her work pop on her canvases which is something I aim to do with the work I produce throughout this brief. I also want to use her style of abstraction to create paintings from meaningful marks.