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Dream Georgia O’Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918
Dream Georgia O’Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918
Georgia O’Keeffe believed that art, like music, could express emotional states and sensations independent of representational subject matter. ‘I found that I could say things with colour and shapes,’ she once wrote, ‘that I couldn’t say in other way — things I had no words for.’ In her early abstract works, O’Keeffe experimented with close crops, smooth surfaces, swelling forms and gradual colour transitions to evoke the experience of sound and the rhythms she perceived in nature. Characterised by its undulating forms and vibrant palette of colours, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2 (1918) is one such brilliant example.