At the Center Pompidou, an exhibition celebrates Georgia O’Keeffe. Between abstraction, sensuality and radicality, spotlight on the work of this fascinating modern American artist.
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On the fifth floor of the Pompidou Center are the canvases of Georgia O’Keeffe, representing New York skyscrapers, very close-up flower corollas and views of the Santa Fé desert. This hundred paintings tells the story of the career of this modern American artist, from her first exhibitions in Gallery 291 of photographer Alfred Stiglitz, who would later become her husband, until her installation in New Mexico at the end of the years. 1940, where she will say she feels in her place.
Sensual and radical paintings
Free in its course, the exhibition allows visitors to wander as they see fit and to go back and forth between the paintings to understand the originality of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work. His series of close-ups of flowers of all kinds inevitably wins the support through their colors, their sexual allusions, and their form bordering on abstraction. But we must not forget some specific paintings such as Black Abstraction, a radical masterpiece from 1927, where a small white dot is sensually curled up in a hollow line on a black background. The exhibition therefore highlights a multifaceted production, each side of which presents a particular daring.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Pelvis with the distance, 1943. ©Don d’Anne Marmon Greenleaf/Bridgeman Images
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The Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition takes place at the Center Pompidou until December 6.
Georgia O’Keeffe, My front yard, Summer, 1941. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
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« Georgia O’Keeffe », Centre Pompidou, until December 6, 2022.
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