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O'Keeffe's 1927 painting expresses her defiant commitment to abstraction and the influences of Kandinsky, Dove and others During the 1920s, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) became widely known for her paintings of enlarged flowers. But she regularly returned to abstraction, and indeed found it "surprising how many people separate the objective from the abstract." Executed in 1927, Abstraction Blueillustrates that belief, retaining the glowing color, careful modulation and zoomed-in view of the artist's contemporaneous blooms, while forgoing any obligation toward representation. In this latest volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Samantha Friedman considers how these and other factors converged in the creation of this composition.

Few couples in 20th-century American art and culture are as significant as Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. From 1915 to 1946, they exchanged over 5,000 letters (more than 25,000 pages) detailing their lives. This volume presents around 650 carefully selected and annotated letters by photography scholar Sarah Greenough. The correspondence captures their initial romance in the 1910s, their life together in the 1920s, the strain on their relationship during the early Depression years, and its revival in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Their distinct writing styles—O'Keeffe's sparse vibrancy and Stieglitz's fervent lyricism—offer insights into their creative evolution and friendships with influential figures in early American modernism, such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, and Paul Strand. The letters also highlight their interactions with key personalities in American and European art and culture, including Duncan Phillips, Diego Rivera, and Marcel Duchamp. Additionally, their poignant prose reflects the broader cultural influences of World Wars I and II, the 1920s economic boom, and the 1930s Depression on their lives as articulate, creative individuals.

About the idiosyncratic of O’Keeffe’s careerThe art of American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is splendid with color and laden with hidden sensuality. O’Keeffe’s name rests mainly on the large-format flower pictures that have assured her an unusual place in the annals of art, between realist and abstract.>Our Basic Art Series study traces the idiosyncratic of O’Keeffe’s career, and numerous illustrations document the most important periods in her lengthy life in art.About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Als die amerikanische Malerin Georgia 0Keeffe (1887-1986) im Alter von 99 Jahren starb, hinterließ sie ein Werk, das sie schon zu Lebzeiten zur Legende gemacht hatte. Lebensgefährtin des sehr viel älteren berühmten New Yorker Photographen und Galeristen Alfred Stieglitz, der ihr Talent entdeckte und sie 1924 heiratete, schuf Georgia 0Keeffe zwischen 1918 und 1932 zahlreiche Blumenbilder voller sinnlich-pulsierender Ausstrahlung und Magie. Andere Themen kamen hinzu oder wurden weiterentwickelt: abstrakte Kompositionen, Wüstenlandschaften, Stadtansichten, Knochen, Muscheln - in reinen Farben gemalt, von beeindruckender Intensität, voller Licht und Volumen. Blumen und Farbe - so charakterisierte schon 1927 der amerikanische Maler Charles Demuth die Bilder dieser ungewöhnlichen Frau. Unser kleiner Band versammelt 39 ihrer bedeutendsten Meisterwerke.

A full-color, lavishly illustrated volume presents postcard-sized reproductions of the noted American artist's thirty-two most popular works.