The Art of
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Fine art Giclee print Inquire about originals
18"x24"
O'Keeffe wore black most of the time. She is wearing a head wrap that trails off her right shoulder. Her face is older with an eternal youthfulness. My style is graphic and logoized so her features feel that way. Behind her head is a luminous white Jasmine Weed flower from her painting of 1934.
On the left side of the flower are large leaves and on the right a particular fooling image that I stylized from her paintings. The sky is abstract with a birdlike image flowing in the motion of the sky.
Below O'Keeffe's image are soft mounded hills, breasts-of-the-desert. Hidden in the hills on the left side of the painting is a little bottom. I don't know if it's sensual, but it adds some moonscape to the desert scene.
In the foreground is a bleached cow skull with scrub desert trees dappled through the mesa. She was her own person always, and I hope this painting captures that spirit.
O'Keeffe's themes were unique to her art at the time of creation and they were masterfully executed. The boldness of her work in all aspects, from form to theme to color, and the abstract introduction of the landscape made her work truly unique. Her famous calla lilies and orchids were lush and mystical. Whatever she did, cityscapes to desert scapes, there was no mistaking her style and approach to the subject matter.
Her style was exclusively hers. The format of a bold flower with a swirling leaf wrapped around the stem like the curvaceous body of a woman clinging to her mate was all George O'Keeffe. She alone could capture the beauty of the sensuality of natures poetic organs painted in a magnified but delicate intensity.
Why a Master
Even at her level of artistry and mastership she was always concerned that her work was derivative. She was quoted at one time saying, Before I put brush to canvas, I question, is it mine? Is it intrinsically of myself? Is it influenced by some idea of photograph of an idea, which I have acquired from some man?
She needn't have worried. O'Keeffe was the artist who gave all women power of expression. She made the female sexual sensual and allowed us all to see the glory in the beauty of woman and nature.