Vibrant, relatively unambiguous, structured layering, landscape centered, compositionally soft-rhythmic to violent spontaneous thin-dense brush strokes in the form of gestural abstraction to visualize emotions (tranquility to rage to a sense of despair in later years).

 

 

 

Joan Mitchell: a prolific American abstract expressionist inspired by gestural landscapes from the Impressionism movement particularly Claude Monet, Franz Kline, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. “A painting is an organism that turns in space”

“Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of
space and form: it’s an ambivalence of forms and space. Style in painting has to do
with labels. Lots of painters are obsessed with inventing something. When I was young,
it never occurred to me to invent”