GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (Lucía Vizoso 4A)

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE 

Biography:

 -She was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and she died in New Mexico in 1986.

 -She was a painter recognized as the mother of the “American modernism”.

 -Her childhood and adolescence were spent in a rural setting.

 -Between 1915 and 1916 she made abstractions based on natural reasons.

       

  -In 1924 she married  Alfred Stieglitz.

- -Her best known works are large paintings of flowers on a giant scale, as Black Iris.   

      

     -In 1946 she moved to Mexico.

  -In 1970 she was left partially blind so she painted just a few works until her death, in 1986.

MY FAVOURITE PAINTINGS ARE…

 

-My favourite two paintings are Red Poppy, painted in 1927 and White rose abstraction with pink, painted in 1927.

-The style of this paintings is called precisionism.

-In the first picture you can see a big Red poppy and in the second a big white rose a bit abstract.

-I like it because I love flowers and when I see them they make me think of spring.

-I love that the pictures are focused in showing just the flower.

-Finally I love the way she uses the colours,they are very lively!

I also like the paintings that I have post above (in the biography), the first one is Charcoal on paper, 1915, and the second one is Black Iris, 1926. Maybe they are a little bit sad but I thing that they have a lot of movement and expression.