Finding meaning in abstraction

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Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955, oil on linen, 203.2 × 203.2 cm (Art Institute of Chicago 1958.193, ©The Estate of Joan Mitchell), a Seeing America video

speakers: Sarah Alvarez, Director of School Programs, Art Institute of Chicago, Beth Harris, and Steven Zucker



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abstraction
Abstract
Abstract Expressionism
Modern art
Joan Mitchell
City
Landscape
art history
Smarthistory
women artists
close looking
slow looking
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1955
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
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