Georgia O'Keeffe
 |
IN 1916 a group of sketches by Georgia O'Keeffe was taken to Alfred Stieglitz by a mutual friend, and her distinguished career as a painter began. O'Keeffe's training as an artist had been received from such divergent teachers as William Chase and Arthur Dow. But she was self-taught in the sense of having developed alone, during a long period of introspection and experiment, the burnished lyricism of vision and technique by which she is now widely known. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887, O'Keeffe's human personality is exceptionally integral with her art: severe in its beauty; warm, direct and unafraid.
The subjects of O'Keeffe's painting were decided upon early and have been explored and re-explored-flowers and the city, mountains, bones and simplified elements of architecture, among others. Her art undergoes an process of conceptual purification; she strives relentlessly to discover in plastic terms the essence of a given inspiration. "I found," she wrote in 1923, "that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way--things that I had no words for."
"The art of Georgia O'Keeffe," Daniel Catton Rich wrote in the catalogue of her 1943 retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, "is a record of intense emotional states resolved into crystalline forms. Her ability to charge abstract elements of line, color, and mass with passionate meanings is as notable as her fastidious and immaculate craftsmanship."
|
||
This website is created and designed by Atlantis International, 2006
This is an unofficial website with educational purpose. All pictures, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and may not be reproduced for any reason whatsoever. If proper notation of owned material is not given please notify us so we can make adjustments. No copyright infringement is intended.
