A talented painter, Georgia O’Keeffe has been commonly confused to have based her many close-up flower works on the female genitalia. This is not the case however. O’Keeffe expressed th…

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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

Photo by Tony Vaccaro, 1960

Throughout the years, artists around the world have striven to create the most beautiful paintings of flowers, but few have achieved the acclaim of Georgia O’Keeffe famous oil paintings. Description from iloveoilpaintings.com. I searched for this on bing.com/images

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…

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

Georgia O’Keeffe Pink Spotted Lilies, 1936 Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches

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