Georgia O'Keeffe Picture

The first time I saw a Georgia O'Keeffe picture was in Art Appreciation in college. I was really impressed by her huge flower paintings. Now you can enjoy reprints of those paintings in your very own home.

Flowers are one of my favorite subjects to photograph. Perhaps that is what attracted me to these pictures by Georgia on art.com. She once said that she liked painting flowers because they held still, and they didn't complain. I'm not sure if that is an exact quote or not.

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The Beauty of Flowers

I began to see the woman a little differently when I saw this quote, "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." I believe this is what gives quality to a Georgia O'Keeffe picture.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Short BIO

Did you happen to notice the her age when she died? She lived to be 99 years old. I wonder if her secret for such a long life was her love for nature? Of course that is just speculation.

Georgia O'Keeffe, was an American painter who found most of her inspiration in nature. Her flower paintings, which she created throughout her career, are her best-known works.

Quotes from Georgia O'Keeffe on Painting Flowers

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

And so it is that the Georgia O'Keeffe picture subjects became mostly flowers.

Georgia O'Keeffe picture - More than Flowers

She is also famous for her paintings of animal skulls and desert landscapes.

You can see a sample of one of her animal skulls in the store above. As a matter of fact it is the last one in the bottom row. You can't miss it. It's a deer's skull. If you would like to see a desert scene by Georgia, try doing a search for "Georgia O'Keeffe desert scene" in the art.com search box.

Gerogia painted in a highly personalized style, using strong, vibrant colors. Her forms are sensually smoothed and simplified, often into highly abstract designs.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for

...Georgia O'Keeffe.

Her Influence on Painting

A Georgia O'Keeffe picture came to represent the new American approach to art. O'Keeffe spent her career painting particularly American subjects in realistic detail. She created dozens of abstract paintings, but she is perhaps best known for her carefully observed paintings of simple objects, such as shells, rocks, and flowers. In such works as Black Iris, the next to last Georgia O'Keeffe picture in the store front above, she combined precise observation with a keen sense of design.