Vital Forms Catalogue Recently Reduced Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell

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No one else has ever gazed out at the flat desert landscape of the American Southwest and envisioned it as a stage for the circus performers

Vital Forms Catalogue Recently Reduced Joan MitchellFrom the Studebaker and the Slinky "RM" to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in America. Artists and designers responded to the atomic age anxieties of the postwar period with "vital" forms organic imagery and biomorphic shapes based on nature. These forms proliferated during the optimism of the late '40s and '50s prosperity, in Tupperware "RM" and the Hula Hoop as well