Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Abstraction, 1926 Here the artist plays games with flatness and depth. Though it might be completely abstract, the pulsing sheets of light
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artist Rights Society

Abstraction, 1926
Here the artist plays games with flatness and depth. Though it might be completely abstract, the pulsing sheets of light in this picture also linked O'Keeffe to the traditions of American landscape painting and the American sublime.

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