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华尔街日报 WSJ. Magazine | “美国绘画传奇”琼·米歇尔的动人信件

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琼·米歇尔,约1946年

摄影 | 巴尼·罗赛特

琼·米歇尔基金会档案. ? 琼·米歇尔基金会


《美国绘画传奇的动人信件》

文/Thomas Gebremedhin

原文于5月3日于WSJ. Magazine发表


美国抽象表现主义画家琼·米歇尔(Joan Mitchell)在上世纪后半叶成名。她喜欢在大尺幅的布面上恣意挥洒华丽的笔触与炫目的色彩。在同时代的女性艺术家中,米歇尔是少数能在名气上比肩德·库宁、波洛克等同代男性艺术家的特例。这也导致那些男性艺术家的神话形象也同样被人们用于对米歇尔的想象。米歇尔或被当作一位喜怒无常的创作者,被她的艺术所吞噬,或被想象成一个高贵的反叛者,在追求绝对真理的路上绝不退让。


我们不难想象米歇尔在法国的工作室内孤独地创作、激烈地把蓝色颜料挥洒在画布上的样子。米歇尔1959年从美国移居法国巴黎,1968年后搬至法国西部小镇韦特伊(Vétheuil),直至她1992年逝世。米歇尔的丈夫巴尼·罗塞特(Barney Rosset)曾在2004年的一次采访中描述过米歇尔不知疲倦的工作状态,这段对话被收录在玛丽·加布里埃尔(Mary Gabriel)记录五位著名女性现代艺术家的新书《第九街的女人》里:“‘她停不下来’,他(罗赛特)带着敬畏又气恼的语气说道,’她就是无法停下。’”


《明尼苏达》,1980

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《无题》,1972

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本月,米歇尔自上世纪50年代开始探索的多联画成为了卓纳画廊纽约空间的新展的主题。展览《琼·米歇尔:我将风景寄于心》(Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me)由卓纳画廊与琼·米歇尔基金会共同举办。米歇尔也是同代艺术家中少数全面探索了多联画形式的艺术家之一。“她希望观众从一定距离欣赏她创作的图像,但当你边走边看的时候,你仿佛是在从左往右阅读画作。” 卓纳画廊合伙人大卫·雷伯(David Leiber)说道,“这展现了她的创作与诗歌、语言的联系。”


展览于5月3日开幕,呈现了米歇尔跨度四十年的九件大型作品,从1967年的《塞纳河》(一幅不羁的紫色与红色风暴)到艺术家生命最后一年创作的《无题》(1992年,一幅色彩丰盈的、近四米长的画作)。除此之外,备受瞩目的米歇尔回顾展也将于2020年在巴尔的摩美术馆揭幕,并在其后一年巡回至旧金山现代艺术博物馆与古根海姆博物馆。


《塞纳河》,1967

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《无题》,1992

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1925年,琼·米歇尔出生于芝加哥一个显赫的家庭。她的母亲马里昂·斯特罗贝尔(Marion Strobel)曾担任《诗歌》杂志(Poetry)的主编,而父亲詹姆士·赫伯特·米歇尔(James Herbert Mitchell)是一位知名的医生,曾担任芝加哥皮肤科协会会长,也是一位业余画家。当母亲鼓励米歇尔发展语言与诗歌的兴趣时,父亲则严厉地要求女儿在诗歌与绘画间做出抉择。(加布里埃尔在书中记载:“也许她父亲是出于自己无法全职追求艺术,所以这样急迫地苛求女儿。”)但米歇尔在绘画创作的同时,仍至始至终保持了对诗歌与语言的热情——她与弗兰克·奥哈拉(Frank O’Hara)、约翰·阿什贝利(John Ashbery)等诗人的友谊都在她画作中的抒情有所体现。在一次与哲学家伊夫·米修(Yves Michaud)的对话中,米歇尔说:“我的绘画不是一则寓言或故事。它更像诗歌。”这也不难理解为何米歇尔的通讯写作如此丰富而复杂。这些信件让我们得以在神话之外窥视艺术家丰富而繁杂的生活切面。琼·米歇尔基金会保存了艺术家的大量通信稿,并同意我们在此节选部分1947至1983年的内容。从她创作时的折磨到糟糕的晚餐派对,这些信件向我们展示了米歇尔是如何幽默地记载了她的生活,并坦诚披露她的脆弱。


1947年5月 | 琼·米歇尔致巴尼·罗塞特

琼·米歇尔致巴尼·罗塞特,1947年5月

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米歇尔与罗赛特是芝加哥Francis W. Parker School的同学。罗赛特毕业后(他比米歇尔大三岁),米歇尔仍在上学,二人开始约会。“关于这段交往,虽然有各种说法,但总的来说…不是很顺利。”琼·米歇尔基金会的档案与学术研究总监罗拉·莫里斯(Laura Morris)说,“大概一两年后,罗赛特在爵士酒吧里看到一个女人正走下台阶,他说:’我要娶她。’那正是米歇尔。”二人疯狂地坠入爱河。当米歇尔在四十年代移居巴黎后,罗赛特最终决定跟随。他们在1949年结婚。这封1947年的信件写于米歇尔在芝加哥艺术学院取得了艺术学士学位之时。身为制片人与摄影师的巴尼当时正在纽约制作纪录片《奇怪的胜利》。二人随后在布鲁克林一起度过了夏天,直到米歇尔搬去了巴黎。


Joan Mitchell to Barney Rosset, May 1947


Tuesday


Dearest Barney


I haven’t got much in me with which to write you anymore – I waited for your letter because you’re playing the eye for an eye game & now we’re both sadly on the defensive. I remained otherwise as long as I could & when I hung up Sunday and remembered something lukewarm in your voice – almost worse than if you had been mad – I felt all the barriers close down around my ears – those same familiar things I used to wear a long time ago – maybe even a few experiences came back – those in your photographs I mean. And your letter without even Barney scrawled across its bottom doesn’t help much. I guess I just feel hurt and I did it first to you which doesn’t make any of it better. I got a letter from Zuka saying much & also that she’s going to Europe with the gallery woman – my immediate reaction was to go with her because it seemed so simple – the reaction didn’t last long – 5 minutes perhaps – I used to think I never wanted to stop long enough to feel anything and now I’m dead stopped & horribly discouraged and in love but with something that existed & will but isn’t anywhere in the present. Just like my ear which I can’t hear out of & half my nose which doesn’t breath & jaw which can’t chew. If I could see you it would all be all right again. I’m painting a self portrait – only one eye shows and I haven’t done too much drawing for the “contest” because of my ear & the headache that goes with – maybe which explains some of my morbidity – I’ll write you when I get a letter even if you go on breaking me small corazon


I love you very much Rosset


Joan



1990年12月17日 | 琼·米歇尔致乔安·冯布隆


琼·米歇尔致乔安·冯·布隆,邮戳1990年12月17日. 韦特伊往明尼阿波利斯. 

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乔安·冯布隆(Joanne Von Blon)与米歇尔在1942年史密斯大学(Smith College)读本科时认识(米歇尔在大二后转学至芝加哥艺术学院,而冯布隆日后成为了一位重要的艺术赞助人)。米歇尔晚年一直与口腔癌作斗争,她在这封信中也提到了她数次参加治疗,医生建议她接受下颌切除手术。她也在信中简单提到了罗赛特。二人于1952年离婚。米歇尔之后没有再婚,虽然她与加拿大艺术家Jean-Paul Riopelle保持了25年的恋人关系,直到1979年分手。米歇尔与罗赛特直到80年代一直是朋友。罗赛特后来成为Grove Press的出版人,因在美国出版了多本争议性的小说(包括D.H.劳伦斯的《查特莱夫人的情人》、亨利·米勒的《北回归线》与的威廉·S·巴勒斯的《裸体午餐》)而卷入多起内容审查的法律纠纷。罗赛特共有五次婚姻,而从未生过孩子的米歇尔帮助抚养了他的几个小孩。莫里斯说:“因为罗赛特的法律官司,他总是忙于生计,所以我推断他多次寻求米歇尔的帮助。”


Joan Mitchell to Joanne Von Blon / December 17, 1990


Witsie


You’ll never be on my shit list. I’m sorry about my lack of communication – inability or whatever. I do go to a French shrink. I’m still trying too. I am so sorry about Phil. Shit – & shit, too, to colostomies etc. I’m still connected to the Institut Curie – (though my cancer is “cured”) The jaw is dead from radiation – is infected etc. etc. Anyway that “cancer only place” i.e. Curie is always so depressing. I try as a senior – or “graduate” to cheer up the freshmen or women.


Well the AIDS scene is so much worse I suppose??? Balls – shit. I remember your iceberg horror scene so vividly as I imagined it. Your superb “cool” – Phil’s fear. I certainly have felt close to Phil. Do we “rage rage” as Dylan did or quit?? Well – my “morbidity” hasn’t been dented but the shrink is a wonderful person – & a philosopher to boot etc. & not “French blah blah intellectual pretentions” which bores me.


I’m talking about me me – sorry. Had the other hip done last spring so I’m walking. Much easier to paint without 2 crutches. Arthritis of hands – didn’t Renoir paint with brushes strapped to fingers?? Had to “put down” my last lovely dogs last June. Absolutely broke my heart. Don’t want more because I’ll die before them etc. This joint is very vast & lonely & empty empty.


However to “hack it alone” in the country is interesting. I love the river. I certainly prefer animals to people (i.e. birds – etc.). Yes I have loved some people – you & Phil for example – & how lucky I am to like to paint.


Barney is nuts & horrible. I will not speak to him. Goodness – after all these years! I gave his daughter money last summer to survive. Merde. Beckett is nuts too.


I’m glad you’re “hacking it” with Martha. You never really talked much to me about your “artist” daughter – or “marginal” one. I always felt connected with her and actually I felt you were bored with me at the Corcoran etc. etc. I think I’ll have a show mid-Marchish – N.Y. Miller – Please come. I would love to give you a “Mitchell” if you could hang another one – bathroom? Porch wherever. I am not kidding – I know the market has fallen but I’m still there. The Art world is perfectly horrible. I hate it & money money – & now petrol petrol. – Gosh those “idealists” Bush acts like he’s starting a Yale Harvard football game – the Religions are horrible (I hope you’ve bought your scarfs to cover your female face.) The Israeli are ick – the Poles are yuck – PP (Polish Pope) is a charm charm false – shit merde – my vocabulary is limited.


I read Hopkins – Rilke – Donne – I look for doggies – souls – simple feelings.


I looked for paper in this vast house to write to you – no luck.


Merry Merry & Happy Happy & all my love


J.


P.S. Witsie & Phil too natch of course


I’m embarrassed about the Walker painting & very pleased too. Thank you. Last year – I – “Joan just Girl” from Chicago received the French Grand Prix for painting. I thought this might cheer you both. I couldn’t believe it. –


Love J.


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