Sparks are flying
Last week I visited the “My New Yorks” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. (You can catch it through…
Last week I visited the “My New Yorks” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. (You can catch it through…
It was just a matter of time before Georgia O'Keeffe went immersive. Around the world, artists like Van Gogh, Monet, and Kahlo have already been given the full-on high-tech treatment.
Georgia O’Keeffe never piled on the paint. She worked wet-into-dry, pretty much a single layer of paint requiring serious control to choreograph her textural effects. Within this narrow range that she chose to work, her variations are virtuosic.
I had the experience, once, of viewing an O’Keeffe exhibit that made me question what I had ever admired in…
There is no denying that O'Keeffe was an extraordinarily ambitious professional. But it does not necessarily follow that the dearth of other successful women artists was the result of her competitiveness.