Simple Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

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Simple georgia o keeffe flower paintings.

The american artist georgia o keeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s. The white flower by georgia o keeffe. Summer days by georgia o keeffe. The painting black iris from 1926 shows the magnified blossom removed from its natural context manifesting the highly evocative and sensual overtones that are the hallmarks of o keeffe s finest flower paintings.

Georgia o keeffe a famous american painter was regarded as the mother of american modernism because of the unique themes and symbolism her paintings focused upon. Here is a link to a short biography of o keeffe. O keefe slideshow presentation is here. She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929.

One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 44 4 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artist s work as of. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. Hopefully this was not the case however i wanted to highlight this one incredible drawing in this month s newsletter. Combining the artist s personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern.

Red hills with flowers by georgia o keeffe. Georgia o keeffe simple georgia o keeffe 1887 1986 georgia o keeffe red poppy vi 1928. This is when she began painting much larger pieces of work. Georgia o keeffe played a pivotal role in the development of american modernism and its relationship to european avante garde movements of the early 20 th century.

She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. Georgia o keeffe banana flower charcoal on paper 1934 these drawings could have been easily missed amongst the intriguing worlds of giorgio de chirico and others in the same space. It was during her time in new york that she realized people were too busy to notice her work. Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers.

Summary of georgia o keeffe. Red hills and bones by georgia o keeffe. Producing a substantial body of work over seven decades she sought to capture the emotion and power of objects through abstracting the natural world. Red hill and white shell by georgia o keeffe.

Sky above clouds iv by georgia o keeffe. The georgia o keeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artist s death. I once met georgia o keeffe. The shelton with sunspots by georgia o keeffe.

It was in the early nineteen seventies when i was in my early twenties. Although georgia o keeffe is probably most known for her abstract paintings of flowers she is also known for her paintings of new york skyscrapers and desert skulls. Two calla lily on pink by georgia o keeffe.