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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
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Georgia O'Keeffe |
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
- Called the 'Mother of American modernism.'
- O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.
- Although she was a figure associated with interpretations regarding feminism, she did not want to be seen as a
'woman artist'; she wanted to be seen as an artist.
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While her work is often interpreted to be about female sexuality, she rejected this idea numerous times.
O'Keeffe, most famous for her depiction of flowers,
made about 200 flower paintings, which by the mid-1920s were large-scale depictions of flowers, as if seen through a magnifying lens, such as Oriental Poppies and several Red Canna paintings.
She painted her first large-scale flower painting,
Petunia, No. 2, in 1924 and it was first exhibited in
1925.
(Wikipedia)
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