Georgia O'Keeffe Abstraction at the Whitney

[moorzeekable]

так ЭТО оказывается  ЦВЕТЫ! БЛ...!

[espritia]

Thank you for good vid! it's grear

[claureic]

Waching the video again, I was struck by the charcoal pieces of 1915-1916. Wouldn't you say they herald some of Jasper Johns's pieces?

[jpapare]

(Great idea to begin with shots of 291). O'Keeffe always denied painting vaginal symbols, and I'm really glad she addressed that. It makes her work more innovative in that she is abstracting from nature as pure form rather than using form as a reference. The show makes me re-think O'Keeffe: I'm glad we know about the charcoals which show her forms uncontaminated by color. I was happy to see the sculpture, which, for me, was an icon of her personal form.

[JonBibire]

great vid of Georgia,thanks

[chandru1103]

I was indifferent towards O'Keeffe until I saw a documentary of her. In it she was walking through an art gallery, when she saw a Rothko she said (and I am paraphrasing), "it's OK for some people." At which point I shouted aloud in my art history class "what a bitch!" Since then I have given up on her.

[f0rTyLeGz]

So coool! Another great video post.  Thanks James.

[cmengelt]

Great exhibition, exciting video report, thanks to J.K.!

[JorgMendes]

Nice....

[fox408]

what a fantastic post, thanks james!

(hasn't 291 got a plaque or some way of commemorating the importance of the building? ...you would have thought that with all the money in modern art some of the big players ought to have got it together to buy the building and turn it back into a gallery)

[jameskalm]

Hey fox408,

it's been my fantasy to get the city to begin a project to commemorate important cultural locations like this with plaques. So far nada.

[fox408]

really? there are more important cultural locations unplaqued? in the uk we are falling over ourselves to draw attention to these kinds of places, sometimes to the extreme...i once saw a plaque above a pub in stratford upon avon that read 'built in 1601...william shakespear probably drank here' ...but you know james, i think you might just be the man to get the ball rolling on this issue!

[ArtAddicted]

Nice video and great editing.

[evalakevideo]

Oh james, how I love this video. I reposted it on my FB etcetc... thanks so much!

[boogiebuddy01]

there must have been people making abstractions way before 1900

[jameskalm]

There might have been artists making abstract work before 1900, (Hillna AufKlimt) unfortunately the annals of art history missed them, so they don't exist

[boogiebuddy01]

people talking about art

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Thanks, james. Great all round.

Best-

[spawnofdawnacle]

This is the first time I've seen these paintings. Great. The stamens and pistils make me yawn too -- like Pablo's endless bullfights. Terrific coverage. Many, many, many thanks.

[hankx32]

I would say that her more well known floral-vagina pieces makes me yawn, but I see here there are some really nice and exciting paintings, thank you LM.

[MeadowgreenStudio]

Maybe I'm not very intelligent, but I love art, have a good eye, and am an artist. To date, I have yet to find another artist's work that is consistently as esthetically pleasing as I find Georgia O'Keefe's to be.

[creepyartkid]

im a HUGE O'Keefe fan! ive seen all of those works! thanks!

[jeffreysart]

Terrific James, had not seen some of those paintings before. l wonder what her paintings in her 80s look like.

[RonSchira]

Great coverage, I mean EXCELLENT, thank you, Loren.

[claureic]

This early period of her work is really what she should be remembered for...Now, to consider O'Keefe one of the greatest American painters of the XXth century is to paint her with too broad a brush...The sculpture is fantastic, though; maybe most of her paintings would have been more potent and less "kitschy" if sculpted. Thanks for the video, James.