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georgia o'keeffe
(Nov.15,1887 Wis.- Mar.6,1986 Santa Fe, NM) American Abstract Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Georgia O'Keeffe's became renown for her portrayal of a vivid, powerful and private sensibility in natural objects such as flowers, clouds and most notably animal skulls and bones. This combined with her use of thin paint and clear colors evoked feelings of mystical silence and put her years ahead of her time.
Georgia O'Keeffe was born Wisconsin, she grew up an introspective child who did things her own way and decided early to become a painter because as she once said: "That was the only thing I could do that was nobody else's business." She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Art Students League of New York. In 1916, Georgia's mailing of some her charcoal drawings to a friend in New York City would bring her inadvertent artistic immortality. Ignoring Georgia's wishes, her friend showed the drawings to Alfred Stieglitz, the pioneer photographer. He exhibited them at his famous art gallery on 5th Avenue in New York City, and immediately they drew attention. O'Keeffe, a reticent person as always, was appalled and went to New York to demand their removal. However, Stieglitz persuaded her to let them remain and to continue her artwork in search of her own personal vision within abstract design.
The whole decade of the 1920s saw the flourishing of Georgia O'Keeffe's artistic talent. The most important of her artwork from this period is her oil paintings of flowers, as exemplified in Yellow Calla and Jack in the Pulpit No IV. These, as well as others, possessed a certain style that Georgia broke artistic ground with, magnification. The vibrating fragility and intimate centrality of Georgia's flowers led some art critics to liken them to female genitalia, consequently they believed Georgia was interpreting Freudian sexuality.
In 1929, Georgia O'Keeffe spent a summer in New Mexico, where she was mesmerized by the dry magical landscape and broad desert skies. In the 1930s, Georgia O'Keeffe began painting another subject, which would enhance her prestige as an artist. These were animal bones and in particular cow skulls. Just as with her flowers, Georgia enlarged, centered and simplified the bones on the barren desert.
1946, Alfred Stieglitz died of a stroke at the age of eighty-two. He and Georgia had been married twenty-two years. In 1949, she moved to Abiguiu, New Mexico and began painting again, but the emotion seen in her earlier artwork had faded.
It was unfortunate that by this time Georgia was losing her eyesight and could not paint unassisted. Ultimately she went totally blind and was forced to move in with her assistant in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Georgia O'Keeffe died in Santa Fe at the ripe old age of ninety-eight. The brilliance of her artwork has proven timeless as it continues to intrigue and inspire people.
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Yellow Calla
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Rams Head White Hollyhock
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From The Faraway Nearby
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Jack in the Pulpit No IV
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