Georgia O'Keeffe - Tate Modern

Music - pink & blue no.1 1918

Soft-edged organic abstracts - TRY IT

Stieglitz Equivalent 1925-30

Cloud photos with GOK shapes

AS

GOK 1920

Face hands arm - artists equipment

Mask with Golden Apple 23

Abstract environment for still life

Lovely palette black Browns yellows

East River 3

26

Abstracting into blocks and planes

East River from 30th floor...

28

Smoothing details

Punctuated by vertical chimneys

John Marin

Downtown NY 23

Watercolour with charcoal TRY IT

big flowers as response to speed of modern life

Rousseau

Jimson Weed/ White flower 1

32

She rejected the erotic dimension - but it's undeniable

Craigie Aitchison

Black cross w stars & blue

29

Reminded of a skull painting I did - my first oil in marroon 

From the faraway, nearby 37

Still life superimposed on landscape

Surrealist

Deer horns 38

Bones as organic growing things

Frida Khalo

Red hills & bones 41

Still life w landscape 

Advance on From the faraway - reintegrated into ls

Impressionists - serial landscapes

Black place 4

44

Bomberg colours

Paul Nash

Wall with green door 53

Perfect combo of abstract & fig

Pelvis 1 44 *

Pelvis bone hole to create instant abstract

Ansel Adams

GOK & Orville Cox

37

Masculine looking increasingly

Untitled ghost ranch cliff

C43

Pencil & charcoal

Focus on holes

Cracks

Inherently sexual
gorge sketches look like Abram Games cliff print

Adams

Thunderstorm ghost ranch

37

A journey to abstraction from & through landscape 

Frames out sky often

Superimposition v Integration

Of bones etc.

Tanguy - shapes

Wall with Green Door *

Hockney - 70s LA buildings

cf Patti Smith, Frida Kahlo

GOK exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin

Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction

Nature and Abstraction is a survey of the extraordinary career of the legendary American artist Georgia O’Keeffe.  The exhibition comprises some 30 works ranging from 1918 to 1977 and deals with the central concern of her work – the transformation of nature into abstraction. It includes examples of all her main areas of interest, landscape paintings, flower studies and abstract works. 
February-May 2007

Barbara Hepworth (Tate)

Tate Britain 17/7/15

Infant *

1929 Burmese wood

Khmer style

Captures baby's arms up

Eyeless face powerful
 

Ben Nicholson 1933 oil 1933

Picasso Classical

Surgery drawings like Moore's bomb shelters 

Two Forms 1933 alabaster - sensual , truly erotic 

Self-Photogram

1933

Moholy-Nagy (London)

Surreal

Epstein - Doves 1914-15

Engraved lines for feet

Horst - V&A 29.xi.14

Protege of Hoyningen-Huene
Bauhaus under Gropius
"The only real male elegance was English"
Beaton
Lee Miller

Dali (1943)
Mainbocher Corset 39 ***
A torturous item of clothing
Original & Touched-up
Original better as clothing more artificial

Isherwood

Lisa Fonssageives 39 *
Nude behind veil Louis 14th style
Hand only thing in front of veil plus slit of raw reality down right

Hats by Best Lord Taylor 43 *
Red White Blue triangle
3 women reading papers

Dress by Sally Victor - Muriel Maxwell * 39
Red and white lipstick and sunglasses

John Craxton - Fitzwilliam, Cambridge 12/4/14

Cf Picasso - Antibes period
Chagall
Aitchison
Nash
Piper

Blake
Palmer
Miro, Leger

Eg
Pastoral for PW 48

Red and Yellow LS 45
Modern palette
50s graphic style

Friend of L Freud
Knew Julian Trevelyan
Horizon
Peter Watson
Knew Sutherland
Born 22
Friend of Patrick Leigh fermor
Collected by peter pears

Cart Track 42/3
SciFi
Luminous
De Chirico

Deeply Greek/Mediterranean

Dark LS: Hydra 60/61
Highly graphical cf Hepworth, Nicholson; St Ives

Margot Fonteyn and John Craxton in Greece, 1951