Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was an American modernist painter whose close-up flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes became defining subjects of her work.

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1: A 1932 O’Keeffe painting of a large white jimson weed flower against a dark background. Its enlarged bloom exemplifies the floral paintings that made her widely recognizable.
Cropping (visual arts): Cropping is the selection of part of an image by excluding areas beyond its frame. O’Keeffe’s tight flower compositions make cropping central to their scale and impact.
Art Students League of New York: The Art Students League of New York is an independent art school founded in 1875. O’Keeffe studied there and won a prize that supported her early training.
Ansel Adams: Ansel Adams was an American photographer known for sharply detailed black-and-white images of the American West. His photographs and O’Keeffe’s paintings helped define modern visual images of the Western landscape.
Feminist art history: Feminist art history studies how gender shapes art’s production, interpretation, and historical recognition. O’Keeffe’s career has prompted debate over how gender influenced the reception of her work.
Radiator Building—Night, New York: A 1927 painting by O’Keeffe depicting Manhattan’s Radiator Building at night. It shows her translating New York’s vertical architecture into bold modernist form.
Scale (visual arts): Scale is the relative size of objects or images in a work of art. Her oversized flowers alter the apparent importance of familiar natural forms.
William Merritt Chase: William Merritt Chase was an American painter and influential art teacher associated with Impressionism. He taught O’Keeffe at the Art Students League and encouraged her early painting.
Paul Strand: Paul Strand was an American modernist photographer whose work emphasized form and sharply observed subjects. His photography belonged to the modernist circle around Stieglitz that exhibited O’Keeffe.
Freudianism: Freudianism is the psychological theory and interpretive tradition derived from Sigmund Freud’s work. Stieglitz promoted sexual interpretations of her flower paintings that O’Keeffe rejected.

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