Simple Georgia O Keeffe Paintings Flowers

Red hills with flowers by georgia o keeffe.

Simple georgia o keeffe paintings flowers.

Combining the artist s personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern. Two calla lily on pink by georgia o keeffe. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. Summer days by georgia o keeffe.

The american artist georgia o keeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s. We have always enjoyed studying her art especially her southwestern paintings because ahem we live in the southwest. I once met georgia o keeffe. This was not easy to do and i considered it an achievement.

In this post we are going to do another famous artists for kids study by learning how to paint flowers like georgia o keeffe. It was in the early nineteen seventies when i was in my early twenties. Red hills and bones by georgia o keeffe. Georgia o keeffe was a fantastic artist.

I was working at sotheby s. Red hill and white shell by georgia o keeffe. But her flower paintings are also beautiful. The white flower by georgia o keeffe.

The shelton with sunspots by georgia o keeffe. Georgia o keeffe was an american artist born in wisconsin in 1887. The painting black iris from 1926 shows the magnified blossom removed from its natural context manifesting the highly evocative and sensual overtones that are the hallmarks of o keeffe s finest flower paintings.