Georgia okeeffe cow skull. In the center of the background is a vertical black stripe. Cows skull with calico roses 1932. In cows skull with calico roses okeeffe decorated the skull with artificial flowers the kind used to adorn graves in new mexico.
In this work okeeffe isolates a single skull highlighting its jagged edges worn surfaces and bleached color. Out of context the skull in this painting assumes a monumentality and iconic significance. The art institute of chicago.
Red white and blue and cows skull with calico roses art institute of chicago from 1931exquisitely reproduce a skulls weathered surfaces jagged edges and irregular openings. Explore cows skull with calico roses by georgia okeeffe with your students and have them create a work of art from the inspiration. On either side of that are two vertical stripes of white laced with blue.
It is done in oil on canvas and measures 39 78 x 35 78 inches. Red white and blue was created by okeeffe in 1931. Red white and blue is a painting by american artist georgia okeeffethe painting depicts a cow skull centered in front of what appears to be a cloth background.
She shunned european traditions and influence and resisted all manner of paternalism. Over the yearsokeeffe became an antiauthoritarian revolutionary the notoriety of her lifestyle sometimes overcoming the originality of her work. Rather than signifying death okeeffe said that the bones symbolized the.
Check out this art project inspired by georgia okeeffes cows skull with calico roses. To okeeffe such bones represented the deserts enduring beauty and the strength of the american spirit which is alluded to in the striped background. Amanda koonlaba from party in the art room is back for another post.
Oil on canvas 91 cm x 61 cm. Cows skull with calico roses 1931 by georgia okeeffe click image to view detail. Okeeffe began collecting bones during her first summer in new mexico.
At the end of her second visit in 1930 she shipped a barrel of bones back to lake george new york where cows skull. Tucked against the ear and the jaw the flowers appear less morbid than simply decorativea whimsical addition that relies on the soft ruffled petals to alleviate the hard polished severity of the skull.