Nature georgia okeeffe artworks. Georgia totto okeeffe november 15 1887 march 6 1986 was an american artist. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes.
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 played an important part in the development of modern art in america becoming the first female painter to gain respect in new yorks art world in the 1920s. Blue ii is indicative of okeeffes early monochromatic drawings and watercolors which evoke the movement of nature through abstract forms.
She would walk miles in the desert sun of new mexico collecting rocks and sun bleached bones. Born in 1887 georgia okeeffe was an american artist who painted nature in a way that showed how it made her feel. Throughout her career georgia okeeffe strove to depict what she described as the wideness and wonder of the world as i live in it about painting desert bones georgia okeeffe paintings1943 new york 1944 npher spirit of adventure and passion for the natural world drove her to explore the diverse landscapes of north america from the new mexico desert to the.
Okeeffe loved the forms and shapes of nature. Characteristics of georgia okeeffe paintings. In 1915 1916 while teaching art at columbia college in columbia south carolina georgia okeeffe made a radical decision.
She put aside her training and tradition and created a series of bold designs some of the worlds first pure abstractions.