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

A day of firsts - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

My first ride on a scooter - got a lift from Jan Younghusband on her Vespa to Ivo Gormley's cutting room - another first, my first visit to a floating edit suite (on HMS President moored on the Thames opposite the OXO Tower)

A brief convo with Tim Berners-Lee who says with a straight face "when I made the Web" (at Nesta)

A tour with Will Gompertz of Tate Media around the (as yet undeveloped) new bit of Tate Modern, three underground oil tanks beneath the old Bankside power station, an out of bounds, secret space - with Ekow Eshun, Felix Barrett & Kate Vogel

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Duchamp's Nu Descendant un Escalier at private view of Tate Modern's new exhibition - Duchamp . Man Ray . Picabia (someone should make it in wood)

Nightwalk from Horseferry Road to Tate Modern, especially the stretch near Gabriel's Wharf

Discovering U & I had listened to the same countryside programme on Radio 4 on early Saturday morning about the South Downs and Weald of Kent and picked up on the same stuff

Patti cake - today's Happiness Experiment entry

Having a conversation with Patti Smith about Rimbaud in London (whose birthday it is tommorow) - after her performance with Philip Glass and Lenny Kaye at St Lukes, Old Street in honour of Allen Ginsberg



Having a quick chat with Paul Morley about Joy Division and Control in said church



Lunch with Will Gompertz at the Tate Britain restaurant with a quick tour of the Millais exhibition for dessert

In the picture - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Going to the pictures with my gal - Michael Clayton with George Clooney



Kick-off meeting for Medicine Men Online with Zam, Livio and Mike - very excited about this one



Walky talky via the Tate with Jonathan Holmes - a quick epic burst of John Martin

Power of Art - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Working in Tate Modern - memories of photo-expeditions when it was an empty old powerstation in a wind-swept no-man's-land



Chatting to Will Gompertz



Listening to Mark Kermode's podcast (aka Mark Fairey, a bigger boy at skool) and enjoying his banter with Simon Mayo