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Georgia O’Keeffe How does she show an understanding of the nature of her community in her paintings?
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Georgia O’Keeffe
How does she show an understanding of the nature of her community in her paintings?
“Ram’s Head with White Hollyhock”
1935, Oil on Canvas
O’Keeffe would often combine landscapes of the places she lived and visited with objects that had symbolic meaning
to her.
Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
“From the Faraway Nearby”
1937, Oil on Canvas
O’Keeffe experimented with scale and space to emphasize the
relationships between the objects and landscapes that inspired her.
A landscape includes the features of a land or area. In art,
landscapes are considered for their visual appeal.
O’Keeffe would experiment with many different ideas….
“Black Cross”1929, Oil on Canvas
Before deciding on the most interesting composition….
“Pelvis with the Distance”
1943, Oil on Canvas
O’Keeffe arranged her objects and
landscapes in ways that showed
similarities in their shape and
line.
“Head with Broken Pot”
1943, Oil on Canvas
“Deer’s Skull with Pedernal”1936, Oil on Canvas
“Pelvis with Shadows and the
Moon”1943, Oil on Canvas
“Summer Days”1936, Oil on Canvas
Georgia O’Keeffe is known as one of the greatest female artists of all time. She was an influential Painter in American Modernism. This era focused on American
landscape and social issues like the Great Depression.
![Georgia O'Keeffe [American Painter, 1887-1986]. Georgia O’Keeffe was born on her family’s large Wisconsin farm in 1887. She would become one of America’s.](https://static.fdocuments.net/doc/165x107/56649f435503460f94c63dc0/georgia-okeeffe-american-painter-1887-1986-georgia-okeeffe-was-born.jpg)
