Georgia O‘Keeffe
Hailed as one of the greatest masters of the 20th century,
She represents the culmination of American painting in the 1920s.
Obviously, the painting is the texture of the flower, the change of rock texture,
Microscopic things such as bone contours, conch spirals, etc.
But the width is very similar,
About female organs,
Elegant all close-up imagination?
Her paintings,
Simplify the complex,
However, the force of the omission was reinforced.
Construct a semi-abstract, semi-realistic,
Extremely flesh and blood,
Sober with decadent sentimental official poems.
Georgia O'Keeffe (Georgia Okeeffe),
Born in 1887 in Wisconsin, USA,
Her family makes a living running a dairy farm.
Life is bland but also very free.
Georgia grew up with 7 siblings,
While attending a town hall school,
Showed a talent for painting,
Learned to paint with the watercolor painter Sarah Mann.
William Merritt Chase
1908 was Georgia's college years.
She studied under the great oil painters
William Merritt Chase，
And with an oil painting "Untitled",
Won the William Merritt Chase Award,
It can be said that I have learned from Master to the fullest.
Untitled
It can be seen that the foundation of Georgia's oil painting is very full,
Her unique brush strokes and color grading style
It also began to show its sharp edge.
It is also because of the award of "Untitled",
Let Georgea be sent to The George Lake District in Upstate New York,
Enter the Summer School of the Arts Student League.
In the same year that The award was awarded, Georgia visited the gallery.
Met her future husband,
Also the owner and photographer of this gallery,
Alfred Stiglitz
(Alfred Stieglitz)。
In 1910, she was once sick with measles.
Start to give up the dream of painting,
Self-deprecating without the consciousness of being a painter,
Even self-abandonment.
Depressed for 2 years, during this period
Georgia hardly painted anything.
Educator Arthur Wesley encouraged her:
"Artists should make good use of lines, colors, faces and shapes
to interpret your own understanding and feelings. ”
This inspired George,
She began to try to incorporate her own style into it,
And work harder to fight measles.
In 1915,
It was a critical period for George to find her own style of painting,
She tried to draw a series of abstract themes with charcoal,
And combined with oil painting, watercolor foundation,
Give the painting a unique sensory experience.
She sent the "painting style experiment" to a friend in New York,
and was introduced to the gallery owner Steglitz,
He admired Georgea's talent for painting.
Georgia also gradually began to be known from being known,
To become a household name.
In 1924,
Stiglitz divorced his original wife,
One heart and Georgia are united,
In the same year she created her most famous floral collection,
With subtle curves and gradients,
Compose a mysterious and vital composition.
《Seaweed》
Floral collection will be Georgea,
Pushed to the first peak of his painting career,
One of them, "SeaWeed", sold for $25,000.
It was the highest price for paintings by living artists at that time.
Established her status as a representative of American painters in the 1920s.
In The middle and late years of Georgia,
She came to New Mexico,
Fascinated by the local landscapes, colors and rocks.
When she returned to New Mexico in the summer of 1934,
Inadvertently discovered ghost ranch,
Quite a few were painted on the spot
Works of canyons, deserts, and wilderness.
Frequent traffic in Georgia
New Mexico and New York City,
Her prestige is also getting wider and wider,
Won two Women's Achievement Awards,
and an honorary degree from the Art Institute of Chicago,
In 1946,
Georgia became the Museum of Modern Art in New York,
The first solo exhibition of female painters,
For women artists,
It is a milestone in history.
After the success of the success, Georgia did not settle down,
In 1949 she officially moved to New Mexico.
Began a life of living alone in the desert and painting.
Between 1958 and 1960,
At the age of 71, Georgia began a fight,
About your own trip with the paintbrush,
The famous "On the Clouds",
That's what she got when she flew.
Georgia's paintings blend two foundations of painting,
Water and oil are incompatible,
But she put oil paintings and watercolors,
A mixture of plump bone beauty.
For microscopic painting objects,
She tends to zoom in on and blur details,
Add circles to the line,
And this folding feeling,
Echoing the word flesh,
People can't help but think of female organs,
Soft, graceful and lazy.
And for macroscopic painting objects,
Georgia makes everything even more simple.
With a slim painting language,
Tell a visual story with deep meaning.
This gives the painting a prototype of a flat sense,
This was quite valuable at the beginning of the 20th century,
And even harder, Georgia can
Holding the flatness in a three-dimensional frame,
Her macro paintings,
It's like a pilgrimage.
can bring faith,
It can also destroy hope.
And what runs through the works,
Or the recognizable folds,
But there is the decadence of young people.
Decadence, not only can be used to describe her paintings,
More generalization of Georgia herself.
Just wait for the other party to fully reveal their secrets.
Georgia's facial features are very neutral,
Simply put, it can be said that it is like a man.
I can understand her and her paintings more and more.
Georgia is a great artist.