Georgia O'Keeffe

A Piece of Wood II / From Knot of Wood

The concentrated, kaleidoscopic discs create a highly energetic composition. A vortex pulls the viewer’s eyes toward the center while pushing outward beyond the boundaries of the canvas. During her artistic career, O’Keeffe returned repeatedly to circular motifs in the context of abstraction through isolation, simplification, and enlargement. Nature was a primary inspiration for her early abstractions, having said: “It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”