Blue georgia okeeffe flower paintings. While her work varied between the literal portraits abstractions and landscapes okeeffes work is still most identified by her iconic flower paintings. Georgia totto okeeffe november 15 1887 march 6 1986 was an american artist. Autumn leaves by georgia okeeffe.
Abstraction white rose by georgia okeeffe. She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes.
Poppy by georgia okeeffe. Ballet skirt or electric light by georgia okeeffe. Light iris by georgia okeeffe.
Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. Jimson weed by georgia okeeffe. Combining the artists personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern.
In okeeffes red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of. Still in a way nobody sees a flower really it is. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of.
Many of okeeffes works featured images of flowers. The georgia okeeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artists death. Everyone has many associations with a flower.
1 by georgia okeeffe. Georgia okeeffe was an american artist who is known for her revolutionary paintings and for being the leading figure of the art movement american modernism which started at the turn of the twentieth centuryher most famous artworks are those which provide a dramatically large sensual close up of flowers as if they are being seen through a magnifying lens. You put out your hand to touch the flower lean forward to smell it maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking or give it to someone to please them.
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. Jimson weedwhite flower no. Grey lines with black blue and yellow by georgia okeeffe.
She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career. In 2014 the georgia okeefe museum sold a floral painting for 44 million dollars at auction setting the record for artwork sold by a female artist. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism.
The painting black iris from 1926 shows the magnified blossom removed from its natural context manifesting the highly evocative and sensual overtones that are the hallmarks of okeeffes finest flower paintings.