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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE - RED CANNA
Georgia O'Keeffe,
Public Domain, via
Wikimedia Commons
Red Canna 1919 |
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe painted an
extreme close-up of the canna lily entitled Inside the Red
Canna in 1919.
- It is a depiction of the large petals of the exterior of the flower, with focus on the interior through the use of contrasting shades of colors.
- The painting was made with red, orange, brown, and pink paint.
- The 22 in × 17 in (56 cm × 43 cm) abstract oil painting is owned by private collectors.
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Georgia O'Keeffe made a number of Red Canna paintings of the canna lily plant, first in watercolor, such as a red canna flower bouquet painted in 1915, but primarily abstract paintings of close-up images in oil. O'Keeffe said that she made the paintings to reflect the way she herself saw flowers, although others have called her depictions erotic, and compared them to female genitalia. O'Keeffe said they had misconstrued her intentions for doing her flower paintings: "Well – I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don't."
(Wikipedia)
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