2023-05-04 21:20:47
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is one of the iconic figures of modern American art, celebrated for her early abstractions and paintings of flowers and animal bones. Although her works have become classics of the 20th century and the circumstances of her life are well known, there is still much to discover about how she created her identity. Etcit is his process of creating on paper in series that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) offers to discover through the exhibition ” To See Takes Time “, the first of its kind. More than 120 works on paper, as well as key paintings that offer a rare insight into the working methods of the artist who used pastels, watercolour, charcoal or even charcoal. It is really beautiful.
Fidelity to drawing on paper
Georgia O’Keeffe’s work ranging from observation to abstraction, she liked to say ” Seeing takes time – like having a friend takes time “. Between 1915 and 1918, she made as many works on paper as she did over the next four decades. Although she increasingly turned to painting, her series of flowers in the 1930s, of portraits in the 1940s -“ a single representation cannot fully express the complexity of a person she said- and aerial views in the 1950s, constantly reaffirmed her commitment to working on paper.
Discreet, sensitive, independent, spiritual, avant-garde, Georgia O’Keeffe left works of incredible modernity. She promoted the idea that everything a person has done or chosen to experience – art, clothing, home decor – should reflect a unified and visually pleasing aesthetic. Even the smallest acts of daily life, she liked to say, should be done beautifully.
Inspired by New Mexico
Georgia O’Keeffe traveled extensively throughout her life, which helped fuel her inspiration, living between New York, where she held her first exhibition in 1917 at the Galerie Alfred Stieglitz, and New Mexico, where she ended her life. In her art, she took inspiration from the new patterns and colors of her adopted landscape – bright blue skies, white animal bones, brown adobe and pink and red rocky cliffs – but painted them in her distinctive style of colors. vivid and abstract shapes.
On display until August 12 at MoMA. Leaving this exhibition, you will want to go further, to New Mexico for example, to Abiquiú to visit Georgia O’Keeffe’s house. For anyone who knows, even remotely, the artist and his work, every space in his home triggers a flash of images of his paintings or photographs of his daily life. We love the modernity of its interior filled with designer furniture, such as chairs by Charles Eames or Harry Bertoia, tables by Eero Saarinen, or even lanterns by his friend Isamu Noguchi, and the large openings that allow you to contemplate the outside. Go quickly to visit it, it will give you an excuse to travel!
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