By Anne-christine C. Photos by Elodie D. Updated September 10, 2021 at 10:44 am Published September 9, 2021 at 7:31 pm
For the first time, the works of Georgia O’Keeffe are brought together for a retrospective in France. This is an event not to be missed ! We therefore rush to the Center Pompidou from September 8 to December 6, 2021 to discover the paintings of this leader of American abstraction.
We take advantage of the first retrospective Georgia O’Keeffe in France to immerse yourself in the colorful landscapes and giant flowers of this major artist of North American art of the twentieth century. Meet at Centre Pompidou September 8 to December 6, 2021 for a journey full of poetry in the beginnings of abstract painting.
The exhibition unveils a hundred paintings, drawings and photographs, guiding us step by step through the artist’s entire career. Born in 1887 and deceased at the age of 98, Georgia O’Keeffe has indeed gone through the greatest aesthetic revolutions of the twentieth century.
After participating in the advent of American modernism in the 1920s, in the 1930s she advocated an assertive American art refusing the prevailing puritanism, and participated in artistic research which marked the country at the time. It was in the 1960s that she became one of the pioneers of abstract painting “hard edge” (where the transitions between colors are sharp and firm).
Spending the last years of his life in New Mexico, it is absorbed in a meditative contemplation of the desert and creates wonderful landscapes inhabited by animal carcasses, flowers and exotic plants that take surreal shapes and hues.
Of course there is her passionate relationship with the gallery owner and photographer Alfred Stieglitz which nourishes her art and gives rise to magnificent pictures of her taken by Stieglitz. This will certainly also be mentioned in the exhibition. Sensuality and spirituality in his work are as one and unite in the same sacred movement, the same symbolic vision of the world.
And to prepare or extend the exhibition, we discover the graphic novel by Luca de Santis and Sara Colaone, which offers a nice drawn biography of Georgia O’Keeffe to appear on September 2, 2021.
Let’s go for a back to school 2021 poetic and colorful!
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