#blackdoorwithred

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Again. So contemporary. "Black Door with Red" (1954), is reproduced from 'Georgia O’Keeffe,' the hot summer new release from @museothyssen ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “When O’Keeffe bought her house in Abiquiú in December 1945, even amidst its ruins, the inner patio claimed her attention as the strongest architectural feature of this ‘soft warm adobe that one always wants to touch.’ The balanced proportions of the small, enclosed space open to the sky struck a chord deep within her as she later recalled: ‘The patio is quite wonderful in itself. You’re in a square box; you see the sky over you, the ground beneath. […] It’s wonderful at night – with the stars framed by the walls.’ […] In the larger paintings… O’Keeffe centers the black door within a vast horizontal white field with a single file of terracotta tiles that tap out a rhythm across the canvas. Light-filled and spare, these paintings are the most hard-edged of O’Keeffe’s later work and foresee the minimal style of American art in the 1960s. As Barbara Rose wrote: ‘Light is essential to O’Keeffe’s paintings, but like Rothko, Newman and Ad Reinhardt, she seeks radiance from within.’ Indeed, the black rectangle of the door vibrates with steady intensity against the gently luminous wall. Purged of detail, the patio, like the rest of the house, was carefully ordered according to the Zen principles of harmonious living. As she grew older, O’Keeffe became increasingly sensitive to Eastern concepts of purity and contemplation. The spaces she lived in blended nature with art and had an essential bareness that suited her, for as she once said, ‘if you have an empty wall, you can think on it better.’”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ IMAGE CREDIT: "Black Door with Red" (1954), Oil on canvas. 121.9 x 213.4 cm. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA. Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. © @okeeffemuseum ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #georgiaokeeffe @okeeffemuseum ⁠⁠ #CatherineMillet @centrepompidou @fondationbeyeler #georgiaokeeffe #newmexico #southwestart #blackdoorwithred #georgiaokeeffearchitecture #georgiaokeeffeapueblo https://www.instagram.com/p/CRPtdycMQJo/?utm_medium=tumblr