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In case you're wondering, here is a video of the Joan Mitchell - Ladybug piece at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79586

Mitchell’s Ladybug presents an apparently spontaneous—but in fact carefully plotted—accumulation of brushstrokes. Staccato arcs and dashes of marigold, mauve, dark berry, and brown seem to leap off the canvas, while excess pigment dribbles downward. Colors abut one another, overlap, and mix on the picture’s surface, dense paint merging with liquid drips, and flatness with relief. The chromatic web appears to hover over an empty ground, which is actually composed of several layers of white paint.

In 1957, the year in which she made Ladybug, Mitchell said of her process, “The freedom in my work is quite controlled.” She meticulously applied each color, attentive to the relationships between them and to the weight of each brushstroke. In this painting and others of this period, Mitchell, unlike many of her Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, rejected an allover compositional approach, preferring a balance of figure and ground—even in a fully abstract image.

Throughout her long career, Mitchell referred to the matter of her paintings as “feelings,” or memories of distinct times and places, the uneven flow of which she fixed in paint. Mitchell was thirty-two and living in New York when she painted Ladybug. Here, as in her other works, she aimed not to describe nature, but (as she put it) “to paint what it leaves me with.”

You can see a video of our full day there at: https://youtu.be/5jTCK3tzhn8 that includes the following artworks:

Barbara Kruger - Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night
Georges-Pierre Seurat - Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbor
Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Henri Rousseau - The Dream
Henri Matisse - Dance (I)
Germaine Dulac - La Coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman)
René Magritte - The Menaced Assassin
Pablo Picasso - Girl before a Mirror
René Magritte - The False Mirror
Joan Miró - Relief Construction
Salvador Dali - The Little Theater
René Magritte - The Lovers
Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory
Piet Mondrian - Composition No. II, with Red and Blue
Claude Monet - Water Lilies
Andy Warhol - Campbell’s Soup Cans
Lee Bontecou - Untitled
Joan Mitchell - Ladybug
Jackson Pollock - One: Number 31

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