1. Georgia O’Keefe vs the Natural World
"Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are."
Susan Alicea
Alfred E. Smith HS
Michael Stoltz
Eleanor Roosevelt HS

2. Art Standards Addressed
Standard One: Creating, Performing and Participating in the Arts Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation and performance in the art (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and participate in various roles in the arts.
Standard Three: Responding To and Analyzing Works of Art   Students will respond critically to a variety of works in the arts, connecting the individual work to other works and to other aspects of human endeavor and thought.   

3. Technology Standard Addressed
5.Use technology tools and resources for managing and communicating personal/professional information (e.g., finances, schedules, addresses, purchases, correspondence). (3, 4)
7.Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publications, communications, and productivity. (4, 5, 6)

4. Project
Student is to research images on the internet by the artist Georgia O’Keefe
Student will research the life and philosophy of Georgia O’Keefe
Student will analyze the images
Student will create a visual response to the works by creating a digital image in the style of Georgia O’Keefe.

6. Words do not capture the spare, intense, unforgettable art of Georgia O'Keeffe; her paintings reveal her better, as Alfred Stieglitz said, "a woman on paper." Determined from her early years to be an artist, O'Keeffe's career received a boost from famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who promoted her paintings in New York City after seeing her work. They married in 1924, beginning one of history's great creative partnerships.

7. Some of Stieglitz' best work was of O'Keeffe, his muse, and in turn he promoted and encouraged her art throughout his life. Georgia O'Keeffe was an American original, living as she chose, painting what she wanted. It is said that her art is uniquely American, shining with a bright modernism and energy. The lyrical flowers, the New Mexico-inspired vistas of light and shape, the hard-edged, energetic urban landscapes all somehow could only have been painted by an American woman. O'Keeffe painted all her days, committed as always to what she loved: