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Georgia O Keeeffe Research Paper

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Georgia O'Keeffe was a famous American artist who was born on November 17, 1887 in Sun Praire, Wisconsin. She studied at many art schools, including the Art Institute of Chicago, before dramatically changing her art style from representational to abstraction in 1915. Her highly abstract paintings were shown to her future husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and they were put on display at his world famous 291 gallery in New York City the next year. By the mid-twenties, she was one of America's most important artists. Over seven decades of her career in the American arts she made over 900 paintings, including landscapes and flowers, but her most popular paintings were based on her multiple trips to New Mexico. They were paintings of animal skulls, such as Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue and Ram's Head with Hollyhock. Georgia O'Keeffe's said that the skulls were painted to represent the beauty of the desert more than death. (metmuesum.org) It was this perspective and her unique style of abstract painting that added …show more content…

Before she began to paint them, she outlined their structure and gave them a certain form to give them a sense of gracefulness. The outlines were made to be large so they fit the screen. Finally, she painted and shaded the flowers, giving it a serene and almost realistic look to it. Her choice of coloring also added a feminine touch to her paintings, which added to her uniqueness in the time her paintings were first sawn. Her skulls are painted very similarly, with natural colors added beautifully to the landscape background, and the the horns of the skull are shaded to give the skull itself a most realistic look as possible. A great example of her skull paintings is From the Faraway, Nearby. Georgia O'Keeffe's gorgeous paintings were a reminder to America and Europe that even woman could have fantastic creative

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