Georgia O'Keeffe

Craig, To Yi Hong

Why I chose her?I like her painting and style.

Artist’s profile >Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Wisconsin, raised in Virginia and studied in Chicago and New York (but she generally worked with the American southwest and particularly New Mexico.)

>She was one of the most famous women artists of the 20th century, especially for her desert-inspired images. Some of these were paintings of flowers or hills, such as Cottonwood III (1944).

Artist profile 2 O'Keefe married with a photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz in 1924,

and he was an ardent promoter of her work. A few years later she moved to New Mexico. O'Keeffe received the Presidential

Medal of Freedom. She died on March 6, 1986.

10-interesting facts

the second of seven children

When she were young she received art lessons at home

She studied in Art Institute of Chicago (1905–1906) and at the Art Students League

imitative realism

In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize

10 interesting facts

she took a summer course for art teachers at the University of Virginia

the goal of art was the expression of the artist's personal ideas and feelings

By the fall of 1915, when she was teaching art at Columbia College

A museum for her

One of the most successful women

5 characteristics

Modern:

Her New York building painting have been recognized as among the most compelling of any paintings of the modern city.

Innovative:

She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s by making paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them as if seen through a magnifying lens.

5 characteristicsColorful

Beautiful

realistic

influencesBring modern style

Inspiring other artists

Innovating

Oriental PoppiesShe used a different painting style than what she has been taught.

Magnify it beauty by enlarging it’s size.

Message: “removing the subjects from any recognizable context and transforming their organic forms into powerful abstracts.”(from art.com)

City Night“It is a striking work, depicting New York cityscape in intimidating fashion. The canvas is dominated by towering skyscrapers, painted from the perspective of a person on the ground looking up, a technique that instills a sense of majesty in O’Keeffe’s subject matter, the city. Two of the skyscrapers are dark, situated on the left and right foreground, while the third is painted white, placed on the right hand side of the canvas in the background. The arrangement of the skyscrapers- their reach towards the sky, their tendency to consume space- compels the observer to feel claustrophobic, desperate for a breath of air. Interestingly enough, the skyscrapers in City Night do not emit light, or steam, or smoke. They do not display any sign that life has made its mark on them. There are no windows, or aesthetic detail, only cold, solid, and neutral blocks of black, grey and white, self-contained in relation to their environment, simple in their geometric perfection.”(From: http://mujtabasays.tumblr.com/post)

Radiator tower‘rising above the dusky street lights of a New York night and topped by a gleaming, decorative pinnacle, a tall skyscraper towers over the surrounding buildings. Its slender form is punctuated by the bright lights of the windows, giving it the appearance of a glittering jewel in the night sky.’ (the art book)

Blue morning glory

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