Flowers and Bones in the Desert

As one of America’s renowned modernist artist, Georgia O’Keeffe brought in an exploration of the way in which American modernism was engaged into the Southwest. In the nineteenth century, O’Keeffe captured the western landscape and the spiritual mystique of the New Mexican badlands. This exhibition revealed the artworks of Georgia O’Keeffe. For this exhibition, the following three artworks being used are: Red Hills with Bones (1927), Red Hills with Flowers (1937), and Black Place II (1944-45). These paintings gave a good representation of O’Keeffe’s life and presented some historical relevance from the perspective of American modernism through the landscapes of the American Southwest.
The range of works in the exhibition provided the opportunity for an installation of groupings by themes such as balance of life and death, simplicity in detail, and sublime beauty of the American Southwest near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Among these themes, this exhibition captured the spiritual beauty of the Southwest. Both nature and its environment are the focus of creative experimentation of composition, form, and the properties of light, color, and infinite space. Even the balance of nature in the desert inspired Georgia O’Keeffe to explore the New Mexico’s universal nature. This exhibition challenged the viewers to focus on the simplicity in O’Keeffe’s compositions as well as the bold colors and light in these artworks in a two-dimensional space. Also, the viewers will be challenged with what art critics think about these artworks. The layout of the exhibition is essential to reveal these three artworks. The entrance to the gallery will have a glass window, where the viewer sees all three paintings at once. When the viewers enter through the main entrance of the exhibition, pamphlets are distributed to unite the group conceptually of