Simple Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

Real flowers sharpies watercolors watercolor paper cups of water brushes.

Simple georgia o keeffe flower paintings.

Georgia o keeffe simple georgia o keeffe 1887 1986 georgia o keeffe red poppy vi 1928. Sky above clouds iv by georgia o keeffe. 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. I once met georgia o keeffe.

Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers. Summer days by georgia o keeffe. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. Red hills and bones by georgia o keeffe.

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. It was during her time in new york that she realized people were too busy to notice her work. This is when she began painting much larger pieces of work. It was in the early nineteen seventies when i was in my early twenties.

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. 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. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. 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.

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. The shelton with sunspots by georgia o keeffe. Summary of georgia o keeffe. 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.

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. This was not easy to do and i considered it an achievement. Red hills with flowers by georgia o keeffe. Here is a link to a short biography of o keeffe.

In o keeffe s red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of. Two calla lily on pink by georgia o keeffe. The white flower by georgia o keeffe. Red hill and white shell by georgia o keeffe.

She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929. Hopefully this was not the case however i wanted to highlight this one incredible drawing in this month s newsletter. O keefe slideshow presentation is here.