Georgia okeeffe flowers paintings. Okeeffes career was long and varied but the theme for which she will always be most famous is of course flowers. She has been recognised at the mother of american modernism. Selected georgia okeeffe paintings.
Abstraction white rose by georgia okeeffe. The american artist georgia okeeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s. Georgia okeeffe 1887 1986 was an american artist from the state of wisconsin who specialised in depictions of enlarged flowers skyscrapers and landscapes.
Whilst moving through architecture and landscapes for her work flowers were a constant theme that she would return to time and time again. The painting red canna from 1924 is part of this series. Close up detail were found in most okeeffe flower paintings but you will find from the display in this section that she spread her work across a great range of plants.
Georgia okeeffe has produced a number of paintings of the canna lily plant primarily abstractions of close up images. The artist explained that she wanted to reflect the way she saw these flowers expressing herself through the use of vibrant colors like red yellow and orange. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career.
Poppy by georgia okeeffe. Light iris by georgia okeeffe. Jimson weed by georgia okeeffe.
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