Georgia O’Keeffe is popularly known for her large-scale paintings of flowers from the 1920s and 1930
Georgia O’Keeffe is popularly known for her large-scale paintings of flowers from the 1920s and 1930s. Flowers as a theme were considered a “feminine” subject in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but no one had ever painted them like her: magnified, lushly colored, and botanically detailed.As soon as she began to exhibit such imagery, both male and female critics—following theories promoted by Alfred Stieglitz—interpreted her art as having strong sexual and anatomical connotations, claiming her images were expressions of an essential and uniquely feminine artistic sensibility. O’Keeffe spent years denying these eroticized readings of her paintings as well as the qualification of her identity as an artist with the word woman.Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946). Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918. Gelatin silver print, 43⁄4 x 35⁄8 in. (11.9 x 9.2 cm). @philamuseumt; Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund, 1978, 1978-91-1 -- source link
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