Georgia O Keefe Research Paper

Close observations of O'Keeffe's flowers show that she never really pursued the realistic approach. She didn't paint every petal and detail. Instead she gave her flowers a life of their own, and expression that changed significantly

The different landscape and religion style made O’Keefe look to a different style of painting. It had such an impact on her so much that she made New Mexico her place to stay after Stieglitz died. Her New Mexico paintings had a growing interest in religion scenes that had a view on America. The 1950s Georgia O’Keefe started traveling internationally to other countries. She traveled to Japan where she went and saw the mountain peaks of the Peru and Mount Fuji. When O’Keefe went to Japan it changed her art work where she focused more on the clouds in the sky and rivers. She also traveled to Hawaii where she traveled and explored the island of Honolulu. While in Hawaii she painted items such as landscapes, flowers, Hawaiian fish hooks, and while in Hawaii the Hawaii Pineapple Company ask Georgia O’Keefe to paint them a picture for them and O’Keefe’s response was “ I will not paint a picture until you send me a pineapple plant to my New York Studio.” O’Keefe had a great since of humor when it came to painting something for

The Artist/Gallery I have chosen to write about is Kathy O’Leary and her studio is located at 208 “C” Street in Old Town Eureka. I’ve chosen to write about her because she is a landscape artist who works in oil and travels around either painting on sight or from a photograph that she has taken herself. Firstly, I'll be talking about how she paints, A series she’s currently working on, and a painting I liked the most.

I like a lot of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings because they all have very bright colors and they really stand out. They also have very smooth textures. The colors blend really well

Mary Cassatt is known world-wide for her impressing art in which she focuses mainly in the everyday life of women and children. She is an American artist born in Pennsylvania on May 22, 1844, but later relocates to Europe in 1866 to pursue to work in art. This was mainly due to her family’s and society’s objections to women in the field of art. There she met and befriended famous Impressionist Edgar Degas. Because of her close friendship with Degas, she grew courage to continue to do art in her own way. She continued to paint until she slowly began to lose her eyesight and later died in 1926. Cassatt was part of the Impressionist style movement, in which she painted portraits unlike many others who painted landscapes (biography.com). Her artwork

2. Georgia O’Keeffe began to paint skyscrapers while she was living in New York in the Shelton Hotel. By living on a very high floor of the hotel, her and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, felt untouchable. She felt that skyscrapers were the first American structure to capture international attention, and that they gave New York a unique and global type of quality. One of her paintings was of the Radiator Building, which when she painted, she wrote her husband’s name to promote his paintings. O’Keeffe’s first city picture was “New York at Night

Below is a brief biography of one of the youngest African American artist Kara Elizabeth Walker. Walker was born in November 26, 1969 in Stockton, California, US. Currently, she lives in New York, NY. Walker’s dad Larry Walker is an art professor and her mother Gwen Walker is a clothing designer. In 1996, Walker married Klaus Burgel, who is a jewelry designer and they both gave a birth to a daughter name Octavia. Walker has been educated at Atlanta College of Art, BA, 1991 and Rhode Island school of design, 1994. Just right after she graduated in 1994, she started a career as a professor. However, the time when she traveled to New York City to join a meeting, her friend persuaded her to hand in her work in the Drawing Center. That was the turning point of a professor to an artist (“Kara Walker” Contemporary). Walker worked in a several of medium such as: “Paper cutouts, gouache mixed with coffee, brass rubbing and overhead projectors” (Harvey).

An exhibition of portraits of the family by Alice Neel, one of the finest painters of her generation, is at the Norton Museum of Art February 14 through March 29, 1998. Both critics and the subjects of her paintings have written of Neel's ability to portray the dynamics of relationships. Kinships focuses on particular family relationships: siblings, domestic pairs, parents and children, and members of her own family. The exhibition was organized by the Tacoma Art Museum, and is sponsored by The Elizabeth Norton Society.

Judith Sylvia Cohen was born in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. She showed an interest for art from an early age so her parents enrolled her in art classes. They were very supportive and loving which helped her grow up quite confident. She received both Bachelor (1962) and Master (1964) of Fine Arts degrees at University of California, Los Angeles. Later in life she also received a dozen of honorary doctorates from various universities and colleges. Along with being a professional artist, she was also an experienced educator. She did a series of semester-long residencies at different universities and colleges across the U.S. and was an artist in residence in a couple of them. Apart from teaching and producing art, she managed to write twelve books,

He convinced her to go with him to the Grand Canyon but she was not thrilled to go. When she arrived she fell totally in love with the desert landscape. They produced the works that became known as the New Wave. In 1984 she took on the role of an investigator to get a better view of the ways that the computer could advance graphic designing. After teaching for awhile she decided to leave teaching and become the student again. Interestingly enough she studied her own work as a student (AIGA). When she became the student she bought her first Macintosh and later would take the grand prize in MacWorld’s First Macintosh Masters in Art Competition (L

She was isolated by her husband right after they were married, he let no one but himself and his son see her. Since she was locked away in the house all day unable to leave she started to create toys for her son out of sticks and rice. She had no artistic training but taught

After she got better she travelled east to New York City, and took classes at the Arts Student League. Georgia preferred this method of teaching, she learned to expressionism and single brush techniques, along with elements of freedom within limitations .

Margaret Olley was a female Australian artist that grew up near sugar cane farms in northern New South Wales and Queensland. Born June 24, 1923 and died in 2011, she lived quiet a long life despite the unhealthy habit of excessive drinking and smoking. She never married or had children, she considered

In the 20th century, women were granted the right to vote, and that included other freedoms, which included the right to become an artist. Two of the most well-known women artists are Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. Georgia O’Keeffe was born in 1887 and became an artist at twelve years old. Her paintings were unique, and were often seen as “sexual images”, which defied the gender norms that females were not sexual beings. Although O’Keeffe was exceedingly talented, she was not acknowledged until her wealthy husband, Alfred Stieglitz, established a public image of her. Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 and started painting in 1925 after a bus accident. She married Diego Rivera, who was already an acclaimed painter, and Frida was acknowledge by association. Although both of these women were very unique and talented painters, they were still marginalized, or marked inferior. It was only by the excellence of their husbands that awarded Kahlo and O’Keeffe the

Mary Cassatt always knew she wanted to become an artist from a young age. When she was about 15 she persuaded her parents to let her go to a prestigious Pennsylvania fine arts