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Georgia O'Keeffe - Blue Morning Glories (1935)

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O'Keeffe was initially attracted to flowers due to their intricate forms and colors. She experimented with forms and approaches before settling on a close-up approach in depicting them, which brought out the delicate details and forms of each flower. Georgia O'Keeffe. Calla Lilies, 1924. Oil on canvas. Private collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

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…

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

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

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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.

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