Artwork symbolism georgia okeeffe. Trained at the art institute of chicago and the art students league in new york where she won the william merritt chase prize for oil painting georgia okeeffe explored the emerging trend of precisionism developed her own unique style of still life painting involving flower. Georgia totto okeeffe november 15 1887 march 6 1986 was an american artist. In 1905 okeeffe began her serious formal art training at the school of the art institute of chicago and then the art students league of.
She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career. While the curvilinear form in blue ii is reminiscent of a plant form okeeffe was playing the violin during this period and the shape likely captures the scroll shaped end of the neck of the violin that would have been in okeeffes line of. Many of okeeffes works featured images of flowers.
Analysis of cows skull. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of. The georgia okeeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artists death.
Grey lines with black blue and yellow by georgia okeeffe. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes. Summary of georgia okeeffe.
Red white and blue by georgia okeeffe. Producing a substantial body of work over seven decades she sought to capture the emotion and power of objects through abstracting the natural world. In the american painter georgia okeeffes work the plants reproductive organs take on a new significance as randall griffin us art history professor and author of our new phaidon focus book on the artist explains in a chapter entitled the question of gender.
1 1926 and radiator bldg. Light iris by georgia okeeffe. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers.
Selected georgia okeeffe paintings jimson weed by georgia okeeffe. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism. Blue ii is indicative of okeeffes early monochromatic drawings and watercolors which evoke the movement of nature through abstract forms.
She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929. In okeeffes red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of.