Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She was best known for her enlarged flowers and New York skyscrapers.She was born November 15 1887, and died March 6 1986 by suffering from macular degeneration, at the age of 98.
She had been recognized as "The Mother of Modernism".
Georgia had 4 sisters, Ida, Catherine, Anita and Claudia, and 2 brothers, Alexius Wyckoff and Francis Calyxtus.
Some of Georgia O'Keeffe's most famous pieces are the "Black Iris", (1926), "From the Faraway, Nearby" (1938), and "Blue and Green Music", (1921)
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Black Iris:
Georgia O'Keeffe made this oil painting in 1926. An art historian Linda Nochlin interpered Black Iris as a morphological metaphor for female genitalia.
The painting is now at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe made this oil painting in 1938. The genre of this painting is Pastoral.
As O'Keeffe wrote (1976), The Faraway was "a beautiful, untouched, lonely-feeling place."
Blue and Green Music:
Georgia O'Keeffe created this painting in the idea that music could be seen by the eye. Blue and Green Music is a work of rhythm, movement, colour, depth and form.
The painting is now currently located at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Georgia O'Keeffe was a great artist and a fabulous painter in history.
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