1. Flower Close-up paintings and Desert Art
Georgia O’ Keeffe
Flower Close-up paintings and Desert Art

2. Portrait of O’ Keeffe

3. Portrait
done
by an Art 1
student .

4. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist.
O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.[1]

5. Some paintings were recognizable as flowers.

8. As she began to paint more flower close up pictures, they became more abstract. It was as if she was viewing the flower under a microscope.

12. She also painted leaves in this same style.

13. And still life with fruit

14. In her later years of life, she moved to New Mexico
In her later years of life, she moved to New Mexico. It greatly influenced her work as she began to paint the scenery and organic things of the desert.

15. The artist at work. She is painting an abstract representation of the desert using warm colors.

18. She was able to take something that symbolized death and give it new life in her art.

26. Student work

27. Student work

28. Agenda For O’Keeffe Drawing Project
Study the different eras of her art.
Decide upon which style of her art you
wish to replicate .
Begin by sketching in pencil onto
large paper. Add your own details to
make your art unique to you.
Color or paint using bold colors like
O’Keeffe would’ve used.