Tate contemporary,London
This blockbuster retrospective seeks to show there is more to Georgia O’Keeffe than anodyne prints, signature aprons and sexual stereotypes – but her own gorgeous, or awkward art compounds the clichesBeginning in grey gloom and charcoal drawings of things she saw only in her intellect,Georgia O’Keeffe’s Tate contemporary retrospective ends above the clouds, with stratospheric, and light-filled views from an aeroplane window that gape like nothing at all. There is a tension throughout her work between observation and abstraction. With O’Keeffe,it was all in flux.
What a long, strange trip her life was, and taking her from the dairy farm in Wisconsin where she was born in 1887 to her death in 1986 in Santa Fe,by then the most revered and well-liked female American artist of her age. O’Keeffe’s career and struggles as a woman in the 20th century are as much of a lesson in independence and self-invention as her art.
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Source: theguardian.com