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Flower Abstraction is among the earliest of Georgia O’Keeffe’s large-scale flower paintings, which she continued to produce through the 1950s. In these paintings, O’Keeffe harnessed the technique of close cropping that she had learned from modernist photography, especially the work of Paul Strand, with her own pictorial vocabulary of undulating forms and soft gradations of tone. In this way, she transformed her botanical subjects into compositions that oscillate between abstraction and…

The early American Modernists may be usefully understood as the generation of artists born primarily between 1875 and 1890 who promulgated the new languages of modern art—fauvism, cubism, futurism, orphism, synchromism, expressionism, Dada—both in the United States and abroad.

10 greatest masterpieces of Georgia O’Keeffe including her paintings of enlarged flowers like Black Iris, Red Cana and Oriental Poppies.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (American, 1887 – 1986), ANTHURIUM, oil on canvas, 20 ½ by 16 ⅜ inches, (52.1 by 41.6 cm), Painted in 1923, Image Source: Sotheby’s “In the present work, O’…

Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction | Whitney Museum of American Art

Georgia O'keeffe | Petunias, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1925

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is considered one of the most prominent artists in modern art history. She was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie,...