Florapedia by Carol Gracie;

Author:Carol Gracie; [Gracie;, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691211404
Publisher: PrincetonUP
Published: 2020-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887–1986)

An American artist known especially for her magnified paintings of flowers. Although Georgia O’Keeffe began her artistic career as a painter of watercolor landscapes, she soon turned to the flowers she had loved since childhood as her subject matter. By the time she was in her midthirties and married to the famous photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz, she had developed her own signature style—painting now primarily in oils—of portraying flowers as she wanted people to see them, in all their magnified beauty. It is often eye opening for people to look at a flower for the first time through a magnifying lens and be able to observe all of its fine detail. O’Keeffe saw this beauty and wanted to share it with the viewer by painting flowers on a large scale. She is best known for her stylized, sensual portrayals of both common and exotic flowers, but her “portraits” of calla lilies (Zantedeschia aethiopica), the related jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), and jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) are among her most widely recognized works. O’Keeffe painted these flowers many times, using color and form to capture the essence of the flowers in an abstract but recognizable manner. No one had painted flowers in such a way before, and O’Keeffe is acknowledged as being one of the first of the American modernist artists.

O’Keeffe is quoted as saying, “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. . . . 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.”

O’Keeffe succeeded in making people notice her flowers. Her work hangs in many of the finest art museums of the world and commands high prices at auction. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is dedicated to her work.

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