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=Georgia O'Keeffe = =November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986= I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it–how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. - Georgia O'Keeffe == Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born November 15, 1887, in a farmhouse near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she was the first female offspring of Francis and Ida O'Keeffe. She was an American artist and a major figure in American art from the 1920s. O'Keeffe received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style. She is well known for her paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, and landscapes, in which she contributed abstraction and representation. O'Keeffe was one of few women to have gained art-historical importance due to her fascinated art and by taking an American art style to Europe, where she gained entry to the level of professional influence. Georgia O'Keeffe graduated from the Chatham Protestant Episcopal Institute in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1904. She then studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. O'Keeffe's acomplishments were first seen with her artistic paintings that revolutionized modern art in both her time and in the present. She vividly portrayed the power and emotion of objects of nature. In 1916 her first charcoal drawings of silhouetted bud-like forms exhibitions brought her fame. During the 1920's, Georgia explored this theme in her magnified paintings of flowers which to this day has enchanted people amorously.

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s //Blue and Green Music//, 1919, Oil on Canvas shows pure movement and energy: the straight lines pushing diagonally downward, countered by rising flame like shapes. O’Keeffe’s Blue and Green Music continues in a more pronounced fashion according to Katherine Hoffman, her exploration of vibration, conveying the harmonic pulsating of music or sound waves. Here one can find the blue flame like forms, suggesting dance. The rhythmic elements of //Blue and Green Music// and the strong V composition were to surface in later paintings. In this painting the V shape seems to emphasize both dramatic and contemplative moods and provides a structure for the sense of opening that is evoked in the pieces. The artist repeatedly used the V shape composition to suggest dynamic movement as well as symmetry and balance, and to signify a positive, metaphysical force stated by Liza M. Messinger. O’Keeffe purposely worked with restricted vocabulary of colors (greens and blacks), shapes (rectangles), and lines (diagonal), thereby eliminating the landscape forms, being more involved in asbtract figures. She would repeat this form often over the years, according Holland Cotter “She likened it and a handful of other recurrent images-curved forms pierced by a central crack or slit, for example-to musical motifs”, with this said, her paintings were merely a production to music and its elements. Furthermore, this music type visuals multiplied in a series of 1918 oil paintings, in which the forms have become soft and rainbow colored. No one really knows the real message behind these paintings that O'Keeffe produced or what she really tried to promote, than that she was motivated by music and its elements to promote such paintings. My personal interpretation of this painting is of seaweeds moving to the ocean's current. The magnificent color usage and the different geometric shapes, as well as lines give this painting almost a real life sense of movement. The light colored wave lines come to my imagination as the moving seaweeds underneath the ocean. The dark colors give the painting the under ocean scenery with the only focus on the waves; light colored lines. From all her paintings this painting grasp my attention due to its color selection and different interpretation that one can give. Its a wonderful piece of art that by looking at it one can feel the rythmic movement in the painting. Georgia O’Keeffe was a magnificent woman who with her outstanding paintings made her a famous modern American abstract painter. O’Keeffe created her own highly individual style of painting, which brought to America a formal language of modern European abstraction and the subjects of traditional American pictorials. Her usage of color and shapes made her paintings to stand out and have viewers interest to know more about them and the artist herself. Personally she produced well done oil on canvas paintings of different styles of flowers that grasp many art viewers attention as well as mines with their bright colors that she used. Also the abstract form in which she composed them made her a remarkable female painter of modern times. Georgia O’Keeffe, will always be remembered through her many paintings that she produced some of which are still admired everyday and exhibited throughout many art museums around the world. || ** My Interpretation of Georgia O'Keeffe **
 * [[image:723516362_fc7KS-M.jpg width="166" height="195" caption="Blue and Green Music 1919. Oil on canvas, 23x19 inches. The Art Institute of Chicago, Stieglitz Collection"]]The style that Georgia O’Keeffe promoted in her visuals was those of __[|abstract art.]__ O’Keeffe had evolved a purely personal and intense subjective expression, with no visible influences from without. Differing from the more or less flat patterns of geometric abstraction, O’Keeffe forms exist in space and are three dimensional. The substance of her forms shows no resemblance to anything concrete; it has neither texture nor tactile qualities. Its nearest equivalent in the “real” world is light, known as “colored light”. Her paintings also have close analogies to music; they are a kind of visual art, some of her art pieces for example //Blue and Green Music// and //Music, Pink and Blue// exhibit those music like qualities //. Blue and Green Music,// according to Lloyd Goodrich is the “rhythmic movement”.



Title: Sunset Flower Media: Oilpastels Dimensions: 28Hx22W Rosalba Cervantes 2010

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Roxana Robinson. The Wilson Quarterly . Washington: [|Summer 2004] . Vol. 28, Iss. 3; pg. 111, 4 pgs __Holland Cotter__. __In Full Flower, Before the Desert__. New York Times: __Sept. 19, 2009__. pg. C23 Messinger, Liza M. __Georgia O'Keeffe__. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1988 [|www.wikipedia.com] Encyclopedia Britannica: Vol 17 (1943), [|www.1ST-ART-GALLERY.COM] Hoffman, Katherine. __Georgia O'Keeffe: A Celebration of Music and Dance__. George Braziller, New York. 1997 Goodrich, Lloyd. __Georgia O'Keeffe__. Praeger Publishers, New York. 1970 = =