| Georgia O’Keeffe |
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| Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a farm near
Sun Prairie Wisconsin in 1887. Between 1905 and 1916 she studied
art at the Art Institute of Chicago and Teacher College of Columbia
University. At teachers college she studied under Arthur Wesley
Dow an artist, art educator and a key leader in the American
Arts and Craft Movement. In 1916 O’Keeffe’s drawings
came to the attention of the revolutionary New York photographer
Alfred Steieglitz whom she later married. After she moved to
New York, she began working primarily in oil, which represented
a shift away from her having worked mainly in watercolor in
the 1910s, and by the mid-1920s, she began making large scale
paintings of natural forms from close up, as if seen through
a magnifying lens. She painted her first large-scale flower
painting in 1924, Petunia, No II. Georgia O’Keeffe vividly
portrayed the power and emotion of objects of nature in her
paintings. During the 1920s, she explored this theme in her
magnified paintings of flowers which to this day enchant people
amorously, although her purpose was to convey that nature in
all its beauty was as powerful as the widespread industrialization
of the period. Living in Lake George, New York, and in New York
City, O'Keeffe painted some of her most famous work. |
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Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time
- and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. -
Georgia O'Keeffe
Petunia, 1925. Early
work of her large vibrant flowers. Georgia O’Keeffe painted
her first large Petunia in 1924. Her pictures of flowers and
the goal to bring New Yorkers to stop and enjoy the beauty of
nature embraces the goals of the English Arts & Crafts Movement.
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 If
I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see
what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is
small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the
flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised
into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers
take time to see what I see of flowers.
...Well, I made you take time to look at what I
saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung
all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you
write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and
see of the flower - and I don't. |
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| Georgia
O'Keeffe |
| We all should take the time to stop and look
at the small things around us. We choose the art work of Georgia
O’ Keeffe to inspire our guest to do the same. If you’re
here in the summer and you don’t plan on being back for
some time we think the Beachcomber and Gold Beach is a great
place to spend looking at the small things and relaxing |
