It is surprising to me to see how many people separate the objective from the abstract. Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they say something. For me that is the very basis of painting. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe, 1976
Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Viking Press, 1976), n.p.
Georgia O’Keeffe began creating abstract works of art in 1915 with a series of innovative charcoal drawings and worked in abstraction throughout her career to express herself and depict her surroundings and subjects. Abstract art employs color, shape, and line to create compositions that are free from a realistic visual depiction of the world.
