How to Recognize a Georgia O'Keeffe Painting
0
69
"A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower - the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower - lean forward to smell it - maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking - or give it to someone to please them. Still - in a way - 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. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. 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. " -Georgia O'Keeffe, "About Myself," 1939 (1) American Modernist Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887-March 6, 1986), arguably the greatest female American artist,painted in a unique and personal way, was one of the first American artists to embrace abstraction, becoming one of the leading figures of the Amer...