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.
Simple georgia o keeffe paintings flowers.
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.
Sky above clouds iv by georgia o keeffe.
Georgia o keeffe was a fantastic artist.
Two calla lily on pink 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.
Georgia o keeffe was an american artist born in wisconsin in 1887.
In this post we are going to do another famous artists for kids study by learning how to paint flowers like georgia o keeffe.
She is often considered the mother of american modernism georgia o keeffe is best known for her large scale paintings of colourful and bright flowers with an attention to detail that wasn t often seen at the time in such large impressions.
Red hills with flowers by georgia o keeffe.
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.
Red hills and bones by georgia o keeffe.
This was not easy to do and i considered it an achievement.
It was in the early nineteen seventies when i was in my early twenties.
The shelton with sunspots by georgia o keeffe.
I was working at sotheby s.
We have always enjoyed studying her art especially her southwestern paintings because ahem we live in the southwest.
She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career.
Summer days by georgia o keeffe.
The white flower by georgia o keeffe.