Georgia O'Keeffe

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Click to edit Master subtitle styleWisconsin, raised in >Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Virginia and studied in Chicago and New York (but she generally worked with the American southwest and particularly New Mexico.) >She was one of the most famous women artists of the 20th century, especially for her desert-inspired images. Some of these were paintings of flowers or hills, such as Cottonwood III (1944). 4/21/12

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Click to edit Master with a photographer and gallery O'Keefe married subtitle style owner Alfred Stieglitz in 1924, and he was an ardent promoter of her work. A few years later she moved to New Mexico. O'Keeffe received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died on March 6, 1986.

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Georgia O'Keeffes style

Modern: Her New York building painting have been recognized as among the most compelling of any paintings of the modern city. Innovative: She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s by making paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them as if seen through a magnifying lens.

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Georgia O'Keeffes painting

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Oriental Poppies

She used a different painting style than what she has been taught. Magnify it beauty by enlarging its size. Message: removing the subjects from any recognizable context and transforming their organic forms into powerful abstracts.(from art.com)

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City Night
It is a striking work, depicting New York cityscape in intimidating fashion. The canvas is dominated by towering skyscrapers, painted from the perspective of a person on the ground looking up, a technique that instills a sense of majesty in OKeeffes subject matter, the city. Two of the skyscrapers are dark, situated on the left and right foreground, while the third is painted white, placed on the right hand side of the canvas in the background. The arrangement of the skyscrapers- their reach 4/21/12 towards the sky, their tendency to consume space- compels the observer to feel

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