Georgia O’Keeffe: Flowers and Abstractions - Art History Livestream

Learn about iconic American artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s life and see her beautiful flower and abstraction paintings in part 2 of our art history series (part 1 featured her early New York years).

"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... S- 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... Well - I made you take time to look at what I saw.”

- Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe: Flowers & Abstractions - Art History Livestream

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77p--aKlkI

Georgia O’Keeffe - The New York Years: 1918-1949 - Art History Program

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism".

In 1905, O'Keeffe began art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York. Between 1912 and 1914 she was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them. This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art. Alfred Stieglitz, an art dealer and photographer, held an exhibit of her works in 1917.

She moved to New York in 1918 at Stieglitz's request and began working seriously as an artist. They developed a professional and personal relationship that led to their marriage in 1924. O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers.

O'Keeffe and Stieglitz lived together in New York until 1929, when O'Keeffe began spending part of the year in the Southwest, which served as inspiration for her paintings of New Mexico landscapes and images of animal skulls. After Stieglitz's death, she lived in New Mexico at Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio in Abiquiú until the last years of her life, when she lived in Santa Fe. In 2014, O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44,405,000, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist. After her death, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum was established in Santa Fe.

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