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Georgia O’keefe

Georgia O’keefe. Born November 15 , 1887 ) Sun Prairie , Wisconsin , USA Died March 6 , 1986 (aged 98) Santa Fe, New Mexico , USA. American artist.

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Georgia O’keefe

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  1. Georgia O’keefe BornNovember 15, 1887)Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA DiedMarch 6, 1986 (aged 98)Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

  2. Americanartist. • She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors, and she often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.

  3. Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers....Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.- Georgia O'Keeffe

  4. Very often, she oversized her subjects, making them dramatic with color.  Even her charcoals display deep contrast.  She said she carried shapes around in her mind, until she found appropriate colors for them.  O'Keeffe loved the Southwest and wrote, "You know I never feel at home in the East like I do out here and finally feeling in the right place again - I feel like myself – and I like it".  Eventually, she increased her scale to include a six foot wide painting and a twenty-four foot wide Sky Above Clouds. 

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