Val Castronovowrites: The O’Keeffe show at the Whitney is the first to study, and celebrate, her abstract works: Viewing images at close range enhances abstraction, and it also, for her, was used to suggest the sheer enormity of nature. It is this sheer enormity that led O’Keeffe into, and back to, abstraction. Where words would not suffice, color, line and shapes — abstraction — would.
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