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Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1926 and died in Paris in 1992. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan settled in New York City in 1950. She was an active participant of New York's dynamic Abstract Expressionist scene and hung out with fellow painters Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston and, soon, poets Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. In the mid-fifties, she moved to Paris, France. There she was part of a circle of friends that included Pierre Matisse, Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti. Mitchell is one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century. This elegantly edited documentary weaves interviews with the acerbic Mitchell and other leading painters and critics while letting her stunning pictures dominate the film. Stephen Holden of the New York Times says, "The canvases have grand chaotic romanticism. While celebrating the physical universe with an ecstatic love of color, they don't shy away from expressing a harsh, feral apprehension of nature and its violence."</div> <div class="film-entry-desc">Cast: </div><div class="film-entry-text">Joan Mitchell, Elizabeth Hess, Robert Miller, Brice Marden, Yves Michaud, Jean Fournier, Elizabeth Murray, Philippe Richard, Frederique Lucien, Marcia Tucker </div> <br> <div class="film-entry-desc">technical: </div> <div class="film-entry-text"> 58 Mins | | | Color | Not Rated </div> <div class="film-entry-awards"> <div class="film-entry-desc">Festivals Awards: </div> WINNER "Whitney Pratt Grand Prize" 1993 Montreal International Festival for Films on Art WINNER "Gold Plaque Award" 1993 Chicago International Film Festival </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="beta"> <div id="beta-inner"> <div class="widget-img widget"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200607170348/http://arthousefilmsonline.com/"><img 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