Georgia O Keeffe's Music-Pink And Blue II, 1919

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Music-Pink and Blue II, 1919 is an oil on canvas piece now being held at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. The form of this piece work of art, in my opinion, is abstract. The media of this piece is oil but to me, it also closely resembles watercolor paint. The emphasis/focal point of this piece is the dark blue oval-like shape at the bottom right, the implied line, in my opinion, is in this shape, the shape looks like it is sort of floating or swimming to the top. The colors surrounding the shape create an arc of some sort, the colors of the arc are reds, pinks, and oranges. The colors in this piece are very bright, almost none are dull. There is also use of almost every color on the color wheel on this piece. Primary,
secondary, complimentary and intermediate colors are all present, blues and reds and a very small amount of yellows are used. Greens, violets, and oranges are used and the location of some colors arranged in this piece are complimentary; O’Keeffe places blues directly next to reds and pinks and she places greens next to oranges. The value of these colors are very light and dark, dark blues, reds and greens and also lighter shades of blue, red, yellow and green.

O’Keeffe’s work usually expresses positive and negative shapes, much like in this piece. The shapes in this piece are very organized and free-form, they’re flat and express length and width. Some lines on this piece are sort of meandering and broken, other lines are curved and thin. because this piece is oil on canvas and it also looks like a watercolor piece, it can be kind of hard to define the lines. There is definitely a balance of color in this piece, there's just enough of each color to not make it overpowering. There isn’t any definitive pattern in this piece but here is a repetition of colors. The moods the rhythm of this piece create are very happy, exciting and active and the variety of colors used make this piece unified.