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Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
From the Introduction to Full Bloom:
Georgia O'Keeffe may be the best known and least understood artist of the twentieth century. She was a woman who lived the newspaper editor's adage that, if the myth is more stirring than the truth, print the myth. Nonetheless, I have attempted an honest portrayal of the woman behind the myth, exploring her remarkable strengths and talents as well as the demons and dark past that occasionally drove her to behave cruelly.
When I began this book a decade ago, I had not yet interviewed the dozens of people who knew O'Keeffe, nor read the thousands of letters from her and about her. In the course of my research, a woman emerged who was confident and troubled. I reevaluated the suppositions of previous biographers to discover a woman who, contrary to general opinion, was not born with naturally fierce independence and indomitable creativity. In fact, O'Keeffe's story turned out to be char
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About Georgia O&#;Keeffe
"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at &#; not copy it."
Biography
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art. Born on November 15, , the second of sju children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm nära Sun prärie, Wisconsin. bygd the time she graduated from high school in , O’Keeffe had determined to man her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically four years later when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow offered O’Keeffe an alternative to established ways of thinking about art. She experimented with abstraction for two years while she taught art in West Texas. Through a series of abstra
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Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
Who is she and what is she famous for?
Born in , Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist who painted nature in a way that showed how it made her feel. She is best known for her paintings of flowers and desert landscapes.
She played an important part in the development of modern art in America, becoming the first female painter to gain respect in New York's art world in the s. Her unique and new way of painting nature, simplifying its shapes and forms meant that she was called a pioneer.
What inspired her?
The artwork below is a landscape. Can you see how she has simplified the shapes of the hills in the painting?
As well as the shapes of the landscape itself, O'Keeffe was fascinated by the bones and skulls she found in the desert landscapes near where she lived. She said:
'To me they are as beautiful as anything I know…The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho’