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5.0 out of 5 stars
Orgainc and Fierce
Dec 25 2010
By janjamm
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Format:DVD
Joan Mitchell's work is explicitly astonishing. This film is elegant, imaginative, graceful. Mitchell is a hard person to pin down and I think it is because, like her paintings, she just is. What she sees is spared her conscious manipulation, emerging uncensored. I like the idea that her paintings are like poetry, in the way a poem is not a statement but a summary of feelings that somehow cohere into a meaning which can only be felt, rather than spoken. There's just the moving feeling. Her work is organic and fierce and much to be admired. This film did such a good job of introducing me to Mitchell, even though Mitchell resisted the filmmakers. I don't think her resistance is intentional. I think that Mitchell is just a rare, visual creature for whom words are wholly inadequate. I watched it twice in a row.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good film, difficult subject
July 25 2011
By Draftsman
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Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This film portrays a painter who died in 1992 but whose reputation is still growing. As we get further from the Abstract Expressionist period and the macho myths that defined it, we are able to see more clearly the merits of some of the painters who were outside the canon. Joan Mitchell moved to France in the 1960's, and she continued to develop her art outside the New York hothouse. Some of her greatest work came towards the end of her life in the 1980's and 90's, and we see that here. Her best paintings, such as the Grande Vallee series, rank with the work of people like Kline, de Kooning, and Sam Francis.
She is not an easy interview, though. The film shows her evasiveness and unwillingness to be pinned down on art or her private life, which was tumultuous and fraught with drinking and disappointment. Yet somehow she was able to channel the pain and difficulty into creating very great art, and this video is a fine introduction.
She is not an easy interview, though. The film shows her evasiveness and unwillingness to be pinned down on art or her private life, which was tumultuous and fraught with drinking and disappointment. Yet somehow she was able to channel the pain and difficulty into creating very great art, and this video is a fine introduction.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Joan Mitchell deserves better
April 17 2012
By Chauncey
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Format:DVD
This DVD has as its subject perhaps the greatest abstract expressionist of the second generation: Joan Mitchell. It's a pity that the makers did not have enough expertise to hire a cinematographer who knows how to photograph art, or an editor who understands that the viewer wants to look at the works at length. Most of the pictures not only are shown too briefly, but, unpardonably, are often not in sharp focus.
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