Flower Painting：Georgia O'keeffe

Georgia Totto Okeeffe（1918） 1887~1984 American artist


        又是因為愛蜜麗狄金森而知道的畫家，而她的這張照片我非常喜歡，有著幾近神經質的削瘦卻又堅定無比。她的畫作較為有名的是各式花卉畫，極致鮮艷且情色。然而她有許多其他類型的作品我也非常喜歡，所以這次貼圖便決定先貼她較不有名的畫作， 最後再讓那些五彩斑斕的花朵一齊綻放。


"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me...shapes and ideas so near to me...so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down..."


Tent Door at Night, 1913



Evening Star, No. III. (1917). Watercolor on paper mounted on board, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8" (22.7 x 30.4 cm)


Evening Star VI, 1917


Canyon with Crows, 1917


"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say...in paint."




City Night, 1926



White Trumpet Flower, 1932


"...I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could...I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at...not copy it."


The Lawrence Tree, 1929


Fragment of the Ranchos
de Taos Church, 1929

"In the evening I go up in the desert where you can see the world all around—far away. The hours I spend each evening watching the sun go down—and just enjoying it –and every day I go out and watch it again."

Black Place No. 1, 1944, oil on canvas, 26" x 30"




Ranchos Church, 1930, oil on canvas, 24" x 36"




Black Cross, New Mexico, 1929, oil on canvas

"...when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones— what I saw through them— particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky..."



Pelvis I (Pelvis with Blue), 1944, oil on canvas, 36" x 30"



Pelvis with Moon, 1943, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"


"Everyone has many associations with a flower. You put out your hand to touch it, or lean forward to smell it, or maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking, or give it to someone to please them. But one rarely takes the time to really see a flower. I have painted what each flower is to me and I have painted it big enough so that others would see what I see."



Narcissa’s Last Orchid, 1941
Pastel
54.5 x 69.1 cm.




Pink Tulip. 1926. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Bequest of Mabel Garrison Siemonn, in Memory of her Husband, George Siemonn



Black Iris, 1926



Red Canna, c. 1923



Bridges and Waterfalls（和上一張畫相比）



Pansy, 1926, oil on canvas, 27" X 12"




Calla Lilies with Red Anemone
© 2001 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York



Georgia O'Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico,
photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950.


來源與其他畫作：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/background/index.html
http://www.michelangelo.com/okeeffe/index-ns.html
http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html