georgia o'keeffe flowers color and sensuality

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.

LilibethAudio: Billy Vaughan, Petite Fleur2010 - Reviewed -2014