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Mitchell Johnson Maine
Mitchell Johnson
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Mitchell Johnson Boxed Notecards of Maine Paintings
出版Mitchell Johnson, 2025
主題Art / General
ISBN9798992024937
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UkwG0QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Maine Notecards is set #5 of seven new Mitchell Johnson notecard sets being released in January, 2025. Each of these seven limited-edition boxed sets of notecards are beautifully designed and feature 20 blank cards of 5 different paintings (4 cards of each) and 20 blank envelopes. The seven themes in this series capture the gamut of places that inspire Johnson's work: Amalfi Coast, North Truro (Cape Cod), Paris, Maine, Race Point (Provincetown), Newfoundland and of course, San Francisco. The photos below, included with each Amazon listing, provide a clear description of the contents of the set you are considering. A biographical flysheet accompanies each set and the colorful notecards are printed on high quality stock and are perfect for writing correspondence and thank you notes. The Maine set includes an image of an Ogunquit painting that is in the permanent collection of The Ogunquit Museum of American Art and numerous compositions inspired by Cape Porpoise, a coastal village in Kennebunkport. Johnson has made repeated painting trips to Maine drawn by the light, topography and boats. In 2014, Stanford art historian Alexander Nemerov wrote an essay, "Heir of Theirs: Mitchell Johnson and Fairfield Porter," for the monograph Color as Content. His opening sentences: "A pleasing thing about Mitchell Johnson's paintings is how they suggest other artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Giorgio Morandi, and Josef Albers. The references are pleasing because they do not come across as superficial signs of "influence" any more than as melodramatic indications of heroic artistic struggle. Johnson is neither creating a superficial pastiche nor waging an epic battle to win a style of his own. Both those art historical stories make little sense when looking at his art. Instead his paintings are achieved-that word, "achieved," indicating a quiet and intense transit through the work of these other artists. That transit is a response and a correspondence between him and them, a felt connection, that leaves us outward signs of affinity, sure, but also a more elusive sense that Johnson knows these artists from the inside."