Look at this painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. Is it a highway cutting through the night landscape with a burning horizon off in the distance? Is it a beating heart, aching for love?
It is both of these things and neither of these things. Magically, the power and the beauty of this painting - and many, many more like it - is in the way it can grip your sight, first, and hold on to your other senses, too. And then the imagination generates wildly different responses - all bursting with half-explanation because the mind wants to sort it out and make sense of it.
Don't let it. Enjoy the superb technique (the smooth lines, the very clean shapes, the expertly applied paint) and enjoy the incredible color crawling through the paintings.
DOG STAR urges teens to run, don't walk, to the O'Keeffe show at the Whitney Museum at 75th Street and Madison Avenue. We're not even going to suggest it only if you like this one. Just go.
The Whitney is ALWAYS free for everyone under 18 years old.
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