Paintings flower georgia o keeffe art. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism. Summer days 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.
Two calla lily on pink 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. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers.
Pelvis with the distance by georgia okeeffe. Rams skull with brown leaves by. While her work varied between the literal portraits abstractions and landscapes okeeffes work is still most identified by her iconic flower paintings.
The white flower 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. The shelton with sunspots by georgia okeeffe.
Georgia okeeffe flower paintings okeeffes career was long and varied but the theme for which she will always be most famous is of course flowers it is these that have established her as one of the major figures of american art and also highly influential female artist. 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. 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.
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 was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career.
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. Georgia totto okeeffe november 15 1887 march 6 1986 was an american artist.
Yellow hickory leaves with daisy by georgia okeeffe.