It's Toronto - May/June 2017

ARTS & CULTURE
Any visit to the AGO is an occasion to see what artistic
mastery can produce and to marvel at human creativity.
Exhibitions, like the current Georgia O’Keeffe retrospective,
simply add to that experience, providing a deep and detailed
look at the works of a particular artist or era.
THE GEORGIA O’KEEFFE EXHIBITION
Eighty Georgia O’Keeffe works created over six decades were
pulled together from numerous galleries in the U.S. and the
UK for a rare look at the long career of this early and influential
American modernist. An interpretive planner for
the AGO exhibition, Gillian McIntyre explains that galleries
don’t generally lend their O’Keeffe pieces, as they are too
popular to part with. That makes this exhibition an exciting
feat and a not-to-be-missed event for fans of modern art.
First exhibited in England’s Tate Gallery, the O’Keeffe
works are supplemented in the show by photos of the artist
taken by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Like O’Keeffe’s
paintings, Stieglitz’s photos were leading edge; he was instrumental
in promoting the concept of photography as art.
His many photos of O’Keeffe often captured images of parts
of her body in isolation, close-ups of her hands, torso and so
on. When they were first exhibited, these photos were shocking,
says McIntyre.
“They created a bit of a stir,” she said.
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