Georgia O’KeeffeGeorgia O’Keeffe

O’KeeffeO’Keeffe

Two Calla Lilies on Pink (1928) 40”x 30” oil on canvas

Georgia O’Keeffe

Style: Abstraction

POB: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA

Two Calla Lilies on PinkTwo Calla Lilies on Pink

DescriptionDescription: O’Keeffe : O’Keeffe paints two calla lilies paints two calla lilies close up on a bed of close up on a bed of pink.The flow of pink.The flow of movement makes your movement makes your eyes start looking from eyes start looking from the top right and end the top right and end up at the stems at up at the stems at bottom left. Stream of bottom left. Stream of color almost appears color almost appears liquid like. Background liquid like. Background is ambiguous and it is ambiguous and it gives the flowers a gives the flowers a sense of power.sense of power.

Georgia O’KeeffeGeorgia O’Keeffe

O’KeeffO’Keeffee Well known for….she was Well known for….she was

famous for painting famous for painting flowers up close and flowers up close and depicting them in an depicting them in an abstract way. Her abstract way. Her paintings give a paintings give a mysterious sensual power mysterious sensual power to her images by allowing to her images by allowing the colors to flow and lure the colors to flow and lure the viewer in. She also the viewer in. She also painted landscapes which painted landscapes which showed skulls of animals showed skulls of animals from the deserts of New from the deserts of New Mexico. She would paint Mexico. She would paint images of nature from the images of nature from the objects she would collect objects she would collect from her home.from her home.

O’KeeffO’Keeffee

Red, White, and Blue

1931 39”x 35”

Oil on Canvas

Red, White, and Red, White, and BlueBlue

Description: O’Keeffe Description: O’Keeffe paints a skull of an paints a skull of an animal isolated from animal isolated from its environment and its environment and uses America’s colors uses America’s colors as a joke because as a joke because this is the richest this is the richest country in the world, country in the world, yet it still has people yet it still has people who go hungry. She who go hungry. She also depicts the skull also depicts the skull in a famous religious in a famous religious moment.moment.

Extra Credit 5 ptsExtra Credit 5 pts

Select two women Select two women artists and find one artists and find one painting and give painting and give title, year, medium title, year, medium for each. All on one for each. All on one page.page.