Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
Blue and Green Music
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Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)1919–21
Blue and Green Music
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) →Modernismoil on canvaspainting
Date
1919–21
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
58.4 × 48.3 cm (23 × 19 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
Around 1920 Georgia O’Keeffe painted a number of oils exploring, as she later recalled, “the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye.” In Blue and Green Music, O’Keeffe’s colors and forms simultaneously suggest the natural world and evoke the experience of sound. She was drawn to the theories of the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, who, in his 1912 text Concerning the Spiritual in Art, argued that visual artists should emulate music in order to achieve pure expression free of literary references.
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