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]]> Remembered landscapes http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-may/remembered-landscapes/ http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-may/remembered-landscapes/#comments Thu, 04 May 2017 12:54:19 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=1845 “My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me – and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.” I dream of seeing Joan Mitchell’s sunflowers, one of […]

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]]> http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-may/remembered-landscapes/feed/ 33 London art fix http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-london/london-art-fix/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 06:54:09 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=2991 A wonderful thing about big cities like London is the art scene. Whenever you feel like visiting an exhibition, something interesting is on snow, the finest pieces of art from around the world, as well as emerging talent. I was happy to visit the Abstract Expressionism exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts last weekend. Along […]

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]]> My eyes and the sky http://www.minutes.fi/themes/of-blue/my-eyes-and-the-sky/ http://www.minutes.fi/themes/of-blue/my-eyes-and-the-sky/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:57:51 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=2325 Oh, Joan. Things you did still feel so fresh and inspiring… In 1975, Joan Mitchell completed a unique series of pastel drawings based on the writings of her friends, the poets Jacques Dupin, J. J. Mitchell, James Schuyler, Pierre Schneider, and Chris Larsen. She illustrated the texts by typing out the poems herself, and then […]

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