{"id":12777,"date":"2025-12-01T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12777"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:18:17","slug":"joan-mitchell-to-define-a-feeling-at-david-zwirner-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/joan-mitchell-to-define-a-feeling-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Mitchell, &#8216;To Define a Feeling&#8217; at David Zwirner Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After iconic Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell moved from New York to Paris in the late \u201850s, she began flinging, pouring and brushing paint onto her canvases, centering masses of pigment in compositions alive with movement.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/exhibitions\/2025\/to-define-a-feeling-joan-mitchell-1960-1965\">David Zwirner Gallery<\/a>\u2019s current show of Mitchell\u2019s paintings from 1960-1965 zeros in on this period of stylistic innovation while celebrating the centenary of her birth with a selection of work gathered from private collections, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and museums including the Met.\u00a0 In the early 1960s, Mitchell aimed to paint not the particulars of a landscape or space but the feeling of it.\u00a0 Here, the rocky coast and trees of southern France, seen from the sailboat on which she lived for several weeks each summer, inspired her energetic forms and lush palette.\u00a0 (On view through Dec 13<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/05c4789c-69ad-d947-685d-3fc28c4cd388.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract artwork with a mass of blue, green and purple color at center.\" width=\"2696\" height=\"3347\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan Mitchell, Untitled, oil on canvas, 97 \u00bc x 79 inches, c. 1965.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After iconic Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell moved from New York to Paris in the late \u201850s, she began flinging, pouring and brushing paint onto her canvases, centering masses of pigment in compositions alive with movement.\u00a0 David Zwirner Gallery\u2019s current show of Mitchell\u2019s paintings from 1960-1965 zeros in on this period of stylistic innovation while celebrating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/joan-mitchell-to-define-a-feeling-at-david-zwirner-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joan Mitchell, &#8216;To Define a Feeling&#8217; at David Zwirner Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[1420,11558,100,3395,856,33,11559],"class_list":["post-12777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-abstract","tag-abstract-expressionist","tag-david-zwirner","tag-joan-mitchell","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-south-of-france"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3k5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12779,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions\/12779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}