O'Keefe

 Born outside of Madison, Wisconsin, November 15, 1887; a young girl was born. This girl grew up to be a prominent female American artist that would be recognized for her artistic technical contributions and her courage to go beyond American art boundaries, as well as her ability to synthesize the abstract, and natural representation in her art work. This young lady grew up to be, Georgia O’Keefe, a female artist who diverted the flow of art centrality from Europe to America.

Georgia grew up in a big farmhouse, just at the border of New Mexico and Texas. This is where Georgia was influenced by the sunset, and surrounding flowers and natural environment. From an early age of art, she developed the ability to take the simplest items and transform them into masterpieces. O’keefe was able to take technical characteristics of paintings and blend in her own inner spiritual feelings, combining to create modern abstract art, beyond human imagination. O’keefe was able to accomplish that through what she had to offer in technical contributions, which was her view on size and space. O’keefe mentioned “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.” This summarized the point of view in many of O’keefes paintings, for example; “The Black Iris” (O'Keefe, Georgia K. The Black Iris. 1926. Alfred Stieglitz Collection.).

Paintings like “Black Iris” were the earlier pieces which challenged American artists at the time, daring to be different to create a statement, O’keefe enlarged the veiw of her pieces, to the point where it gets unrecognizable and difficult to make out. The point being to bring attention to what O’keefe felt like needed attention, single flowers, solo plants, dried bones. Many of her paintings were based on emotional feelings, a statement that arouse within.

O’keefe had a significant skill with “still life” images, paintings that potray live...