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Georgia O Keeeffe Biography

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Georgia O’Keeffe was a well-known American artist with a distinctive style in the contemporary art world. She made her artwork one of kind by using personal emotions and observations within her paintings. She used her abstract artwork to say things that she could not say or express in her everyday life. Her early life and upbringing shaped the type of artist she became later on in her life and added to her unique style she was so well known for throughout her career. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887. She was the second child out of seven born into the O’Keeffe family. She had three immigrant grandparents and her father was of Irish descent and her mother Hungarian and Dutch. She was born into a small farming community in …show more content…

In the summer of 1915 Georgia slowly started coming back into painting world. After O’Keeffe’s moved back to Texas she began to draw some charcoal work. She sent those drawings to a friend in New York. The friend took those drawings and showed them to a man name Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was a photographer who owned his own gallery. He wanted to put the O’Keeffe’s drawings up in his gallery. Georgia, without her knowledge, had her first art show in 1916 promoted by Steiglitz in his gallery. After that O’Keeffe moved back to New York and spent all her time with her art work. Her artwork started to change after this move which took place 1918. She started to work with oil painting on very large canvases and stayed away from her previous materials which was paper with water colors. Six years into this phase of her life, Georgia married Steiglitz. Their marriage was very well known and admired. During their marriage O’Keeffe drew some of her most famous pieces. In 1929 Georgia O’Keeffe started to do paintings from the memories of the landscape she observed during her summers spent in Mexico. 1946 her husband died and she left New York. She moved to Mexico where she started to expand her landscape ideas and work. She stayed in Mexico for the rest of her career. Towards the end of her life she started to lose her eyesight, and the physical change can be observed in …show more content…

This is my favorite piece from her because I love the colors and the up close details of the flower. I love what Georgia says about wanting to paint what she sees. I feel when I look at this I am seeing what O’Keeffe was looking at and feeling at the time she was painting this. The meaning of this was to get people to slow down and look at things. I feel that people need to do that with art or just in everyday life. I think O’Keeffe accomplished what she wanted with this artwork. I love the use of purple and pink to make it stand out and become realistic to the viewer. I really like how O’Keeffe took something so simple like a flower and made it bright and sharp looking to get people attention. Usually people use more complex things to get people attention. That is the basics of Georgia O’Keeffe’s art work: to take something simple and enlarge it and for people to use their imagination to see the real

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