O'Keeffe
Skull and flower
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) was an American artist known for large-scale paintings of flowers, desert landscapes, and animal bones.
Her close-up floral works invited both botanical admiration and sexual interpretation—she dismissed the latter.
O'Keeffe spent her later decades in New Mexico, whose stark terrain became synonymous with her name: very O'Keeffe, an O'Keeffe sky.
Northern New Mexico art community
- mesaFlat-topped steep-sided elevation
- bonesRigid internal support structure
- skullHead's bone casing
- pelvisBony basin at waist
bleached · arid · vast · Southwest · horizon · sky · adobe · arroyo
Innovative cultural pioneers
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- innovationCreating something original
- formalismPrivileging structure over substance
- nonrepresentationalNot depicting reality
biomorphic · geometric · minimalism · composition · form · shape · contemporary · pioneer
One who applies pigment
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- studioCreative professional's workspace
exhibition · gallery · museum · masterpiece · artistic · breakthrough · visionary · trailblazer
Colored bloom segments
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
- magnoliaLarge-flowered ornamental tree
- jimsonweedToxic hallucinogenic nightshade plant
- irisEye's pigmented disc
poppy · jack-in-the-pulpit · close-up · enlargement · botanical · pistil · stamen · organic
Taos
Northern New Mexico art community
pelvis · bleached · arid · vast · Southwest · horizon · sky · adobe · arroyo · sagebrush
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- innovationCreating something original
- formalismPrivileging structure over substance
nonrepresentational · biomorphic · geometric · minimalism · composition · form · shape · contemporary · pioneer · groundbreaking
painter
One who applies pigment
studio · exhibition · gallery · museum · masterpiece · artistic · breakthrough · visionary · trailblazer · retrospective
petals
Colored bloom segments
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
- magnoliaLarge-flowered ornamental tree
- jimsonweedToxic hallucinogenic nightshade plant
iris · poppy · jack-in-the-pulpit · close-up · enlargement · botanical · pistil · stamen · organic · sensual
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- American ArtAmerican art, Hudson River School, American Renaissance, Ashcan School, Abstract Expressionism
- Modern Artcubism, Cubism, Fauvism, dadaism, Dadaism
- Modern ArtistsPicasso, Pablo Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, Warhol
O'KeeffeAshcan School
Early 1900s American realist movement
social realism · cityscapes · Edward Hopper · Jacob Lawrence