Artist 177
Georgia O'Keeffe
Mother of American Modernism
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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (born 1887) was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".
A seminal figure of American Modernism, in 1915 Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the very first American artists to produce a purely abstract work of art, in contrast to the dominant movement of American realism.
The theories of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky in part inspired O'Keeffe to explore "the idea that music could be translated into something for the eye," to achieve pure expression free of other external references.
O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers, such as the Red Canna paintings, that many found to represent women's genitalia, although O'Keeffe consistently denied that intention.
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https://www.harpersbazaar.com/…/…/g7916/best-female-artists/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe/
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