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August 15 2010
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1968—1969
Oil on canvas; from Sunflowers exhibition, 2009.
"Her Sunflower works count amongst the most experimental and vibrant of all her pieces. [...] Mitchell considered sunflowers to be ‘like people’ — subjects to empathise with whose life cycles were played out with exuberance but brutal swiftness. ‘If I see a sunflower drooping, I can droop with it,’ she explained, ‘and I draw it, and feel it until its death.’ Like van Gogh whose precedent she was brave enough to summon, she embraced sunflowers for their hopefulness as much as for their assertive and undeniable splendour. Her images do not much resemble the plants themselves: they are blue and red as well as golden, erratically dancing sweeps of colour that communicate internal as much as external landscape."
