Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1919 Like Kandinsky, O'Keeffe believed that colors corresponded to musical tones. Pictures like this one, with its ambiguously
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artist Rights Society

Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1919
Like Kandinsky, O'Keeffe believed that colors corresponded to musical tones. Pictures like this one, with its ambiguously sexual imagery, got O'Keeffe labeled as an artist concerned only with expressions of womanhood — an understanding of her work that she found exasperating.

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