Georgia O’Keeffe and Escaping Flatland

January 9, 2008 | Edward Tufte

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I recently visited the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. This is one of the few museums in the United States devoted to the work of a single artist. Both the artworks and the museum are wonderful.

O’Keeffe’s catalogue raisonné contains 8 especially intriguing paintings from 1976-1977 that depict a subtle varying gray field (appearing as a rectangle in perspective) against a luscious blue sky background. These paintings reminded me of some photographs of my landscape work Escaping Flatland 1-10 against the sky.

Below, photographs by Andrei Severny of my stainless steel artworks, the series Escaping Flatland.

Immediately below, color graduations in an O’Keeffe painting, followed by studies of color graduations in photographs of Escaping Flatland:

Topics: E.T., Sculpture

Comments

Joe McCaughey says:

January 10, 2008 at 5:09 pm

These are beautiful images. As I viewed them I was reminded of a photo I took of the O’Keeffe museum and my favorite satellite some years ago (pardon the low resolution).

Thanks.
Edward Tufte says:

January 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Wonderful picture.
Edward Tufte says:

February 6, 2008 at 7:12 am

San Francisco to New York in-flight pictures, February 2008:
Constanza Pacher says:

November 16, 2013 at 1:14 am

This sky surprised me for how perfectly two-dimensional it looked. Flying Toronto-Edmonton, 2013 (sorry for the bad resolution, phone camera).