1. Georgia o’Keeffe

2. Georgia o’Keeffe AMERICAN ARTIST WHEN? 1887-1986
WHAT? Oil Paint on Canvas
Nature: Flowers, Bones, Landscapes, NYC & New Mexico
HOW? Abstraction
Monumentalized, Cropped & Magnified Bold & Colorful

3. Georgia O’Keeffe was born on her family’s large Wisconsin farm in 1887.
AMERICAN ARTIST
Second of seven children
Received art lessons at home
Moved to Williamsburg Virginia at age 15
Studied at the Institute of Chicago in Illinois ( )
Studied at the Art Students league in New York ( )
Spent her final years in New Mexico
She would grow up to become one of America’s most famous painters.

4. Georgia’s SUBJECT MATTER: She loved to paint flowers, mountains, seashells, and even animal bones she found in the desert.

5. Georgia usually made her flowers very large
Georgia usually made her flowers very large. She is known for her interesting COMPOSITIONS and use of bold vivid COLOR, and her use of MAGNIFYING and CROPPING her images to show ABSTRACTION. It is the flower paintings that she is most famous for.

6. Flower Paintings

8. Shell Paintings

9. Georgia went out west to visit friends in New Mexico in 1929.
She thought the desert was an exciting place to paint.
Here she began painting the animal bones, desert flowers, and sun-baked adobe churches she saw.

11. More paintings of animal bones.

12. Georgia also loved to paint leaves.

13. More Leaf Paintings

15. O’Keeffe met the famous photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1908.
He exhibited 10 of her charcoal pictures in 1916.
Married Alfred in 1924.
Alfred was 23 years older than Georgia.
Georgia O’Keeffe lived to be 98 years old.
She did more than 2000 paintings in her lifetime.

22. ASBTRACT FLOWER DRAWING
1)Select a flower to draw (use google images – FLOWER Illustrations)
2)CROP and ENLARGE parts of the flower
3)Measure & draw three 4 x 4” squares and draw 3 unique thumbnail sketches of a cropped & enlarged flower keeping COMPOSITION in mind 4 4 4

23. In Red Poppy, how does the artist focus attention on the flower?
O’Keeffe monumentalizes, or magnifies, the flower so that it is “larger than life.” She also crops the image so that it appears to be bursting out of the frame. Its intense, vibrant colors and visually interesting organic shapes take on a life of their own.
When we study Red Poppy, it seems as though we are seeing this familiar flower for the first time.