Georgia o'keeffe flowers color and sensuality
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Georgia O'Keeffe is a 20th
century American painter
best known for her flower
canvases and southwestern
landscapes. A pioneer of
Modern Art, Georgia
O'Keeffe created large-scale
paintings of natural forms
and flowers at close range.
She began to spend much of
her time in New Mexico and
created imagery
synonymous with the
American Southwest.
1918 – photo by Alfred Stieglitz
Moving to New York in 1914, Georgia O'Keeffe was quick to assimilate the principles of European modernism
“If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see -what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
In 1918 she moved to Manhattan, with the support of Stieglitz, who became her husband
O’Keeffe
explores the
ambiguous
relationship
between
abstraction and
figurativism
in her large
flower plans
Her best known works show very colorful fresh, andsensual flowers
(1887 – 1986)
In 1946, after her husband’s death, O’Keeffe left to live alone atGhost Ranch, in the middle of an indian reservation in Nouveau-Mexique desert . She died at 99 in Santa Fé.
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