“Painted circa 1921-22, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Reflection embodies the contradictions inherent in the artist’s best work which came to define her career and cement her legacy as one of the most enduring and intriguing figures in 20th-century American Art. Lake George Reflection, the most ambitious in scale of her works from the 1920s,is a meditation on the sublime, building upon the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River School artists who sought to capture the drama and beauty of the unspoiled landscape surrounding Lake George. Presented alternatively as both a vertical and horizontal composition, the work is an expression of the artist’s experimental thought process as she considered what it meant to be representational in an age of burgeoning abstraction in American Art. Horizontally, the painting exemplifies the boldly colorful landscapes which have become a hallmark of O’Keeffe’s career, foreshadowing the abstracted paintings of the New Mexico hills from her later years. When viewed vertically, as Lake George Reflection was first exhibited in 1923 at the Anderson Galleries, the infinite horizon shifts to a powerful vertical thrust, with the formerly symmetrical reflections of the landscape morphing into the interior folds of a magnified flower or echoing the bold and daring heights of a New York City skyscraper. This ambiguity of orientation results in a painting that is at once highly representational and wholly abstract, carefully constructed and malleable, and which defines the subtle power of O’Keeffe’s most dramatic and admired works…”
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Thank you for this. beautiful post featuring Mariam Batsashvill’s beautiful playing and for the O’Keefe image…Such a joy on this Saturday afternoon….:)
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My pleasure, Janet! I am so pleased you enjoyed it. 🙂
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O’Keefe was wonderful.
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Thanks for visiting and sharing your thoughts. 🙂
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I enjoyed her explanation of why she chooses to play it in one way over the other. The dreamy and the brave versions…, it makes you reflect on it. So interesting. Beautiful selection of the painting by O’keefe to accompany these videos. I love her landscapes 🙂
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Olga. I am so pleased you enjoyed this. 🙂
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A different take of the arts for you today, Sunnyside. I loved how you mixed it up with a musical 🎶 tribute by Mariam Batsashvill’s. I learned much today from two of my favorite people on WordPress that brought back memories of my standing grand piano that was a precursor to the Kimball. Thank you so very much, Sunnyside! You have brought back memories, the good definitely overcoming the bad by a hundred fold!! I hope that you have a pleasant and peaceful Saturday!!!😊💗🌸
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Even a few moments of focusing on the good helps me deal with the not so lovely in life. I am so pleased you found some good memories today, Susan. 🙂❤️
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Mariam Batsashvili is new to me. I like her explanations of what she does when playing this piece.
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She is new to me, too, Steve. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 🙂
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Absolutely beautiful. Sigh. Thank You!!! 💕
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My pleasure, forresting! I am so pleased you enjoyed this one.🙂❤️
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Me too!!! 🤗
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