Friday, April 25, 2014
Georgia O'Keeffe's Leaves and Fruit
I saw the exhibition Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George at the de Young Museum the other day. It was neat to see her early paintings before she went to the dessert--the same hand and sensibility even so early on, but operating on completely different landscapes, completely different flowers, and therefore using a completely different color palette than that of the later work which came to define her oeuvre. The show mostly consisted of medium-sized canvases which I didn't think were being done any great service by being hung in the large--indeed somewhat cavernous--special exhibition galleries on the museum's lower level. A more intimate presentation would have been nice. Especially for the pieces I liked most of all in the show: six or eight quite small paintings, some of leaves and some of flowers. Here are most of them. Aren't they cool?
(Though once again I am reminded how absurdly difficult it can be to find decent even semi-high-res images of less-famous works, even by the most famous artists. And how absurd is that? In our much heralded digital age shouldn't this be something that's readily available to all?)







thank you for this. georgia o'keefe seems to be popping up all around me, and i'm always grateful. there must be a message... n♥
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