WOMEN IN ART: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

I've had a few people ask me why I've been doing posts about women recently. It's March so it's Women's History Month! Why not support the amazing women who have helped move our art world forward?

One amazing woman who really changed art of the 20th Century is Georgia O'Keeffe. Not only was she was married to a man who was the Founder of Modern Photography in America, Alfred Stieglitz, but she also was an inspiring naturalist painter. She started off being a landscape painter and once she got more well known, because of Stieglitz's Gallery, she began painting flowers in a sexual and dynamic manner. 

Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, oil on canvas, 1926

Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack in the Pulpit No. IV, oil on canvas, 1930

Later in her life she went to New Mexico and was extremely inspired by the nature she found. There is a relation to her flower paintings in the skies of her newer landscapes and paintings. Her main style is abstract nature, where one can easily find the nature inspiration there still are twists to application of color by using blocking.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, oil on canvas, 1931

"When you take a flower in your hand, and really look at it, it's your world from the moment. I want to give world to someone else." -Georgia O'Keeffe
O'Keeffe was able to paint to such a wide audience which allowed her to have a large following. Her work is widely renown and will continue to influence artists today.

Citations:
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/jack-in-the-pulpit-no-iv
http://www.biography.com/people/georgia-okeeffe-9427684
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/georgia-okeeffe/about-the-painter/55/
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/geok/hd_geok.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/52.203