Art 2 abstracting nature and georgia o'keefe

ABSTRACTING NATUREART 2 UNIT PROJECT - MR. TREACY

FOCUS ARTIST: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

ARTIST PROFILE: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

INFORMATION FROM: HTTP://WWW.OKEEFFEMUSEUM.ORG/ABOUT-GEORGIA-OKEEFFE.HTML

• BORN IN 1887 IN SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN• SHE STUDIED ART AT THE SCHOOL OF THE

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (SAIC) AND THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE IN NEW YORK

• SHE LATER STUDIED TO BECOME AN ART TEACHER AT THE TEACHER’S COLLEGE IN VIRGINIA SHE STUDIED THE IDEAS OF ARTHUR WESLEY DOW WHO BELIEVED “THE GOAL OF ART WAS THE EXPRESSION OF THE ARTIST'S PERSONAL IDEAS AND FEELINGS AND THAT SUCH SUBJECT MATTER WAS BEST REALIZED THROUGH HARMONIOUS ARRANGEMENTS OF LINE, COLOR, AND NOTAN (THE JAPANESE SYSTEM OF LIGHTS AND DARKS).

Early Life:

http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe.html


• STIEGLITZ WAS AN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND GALLERY OWNER WHO FIRST INTRODUCED O’KEEFFE’S WORK TO THE PUBLIC AT HIS “GALLERY 291”

• STIEGLITZ LEFT HIS WIFE AND FAMILY TO MARRY O’KEEFFE

• STIEGLITZ AND O’KEEFFE LIVED IN NEW YORK CITY AND VISITED THE STIEGLITZ FAMILY HOME IN LAKE GEORGE (UPSTATE NEW YORK)

• DURING THEIR TIME IN LAKE GEORGE, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE DISCOVERED HER INTEREST IN ABSTRACTING NATURE BY TAKING SCENES FROM REAL-LIFE AND ZOOMING IN OR SIMPLIFYING HER SUBJECT

• AS O’KEEFFE’S MARRIAGE TO STIEGLITZ CAME TO AN END, O’KEEFFE REALIZED SHE NEEDED TO STEP OUT OF HIS ARTISTIC SHADOW

Marriage to Alfred Stieglitz:


http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe.html


• AFTER SEPARATING FROM HER HUSBAND ALFRED STIEGLITZ, O’KEEFFE RELOCATED HER LIFE AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE TO TAOS, NEW MEXICO IN 1930

• THE NEW MEXICO LANDSCAPE BECAME A IMPORTANT PART OF HER ARTWORK

• SHE CONTINUED TO WORK BETWEEN FIGURATION AND ABSTRACTION WHILE USING NATURAL FORMS LIKE ANIMAL BONES AND FLOWERS AS HER POINT OF REFERENCE

• O’KEEFFE CONTINUED PAINTING THROUGHOUT THE 1950’S, 60’S AND 70’S UNTIL SHE STARTED TO LOSE HER SIGHT

• OKEEFFE DIED IN 1986 AT THE AGE OF 98

Later Life


ARTIST PROFILE: GEORGIA O’KEEFFEArtwork Examples: Paintings from Lake George, NY



ARTIST PROFILE: GEORGIA O’KEEFFEArtwork Examples: Flower Abstractions

ARTIST PROFILE: GEORGIA O’KEEFFEArtwork Examples: Flower Abstractions

ARTIST PROFILE: GEORGIA O’KEEFFEArtwork Examples: Nature Abstractions

ARTIST PROFILE: GEORGIA O’KEEFFEArtwork Examples: New Mexico



ABSTRACTING NATUREART 2 ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: USING THE ARTWORK OF GEORGIA O’KEEFFE, HOW CAN YOU USE ELEMENTS FROM NATURE AND THE LANDSCAPE TO CREATE ARTWORK THAT USES VISUAL METAPHOR AND ORGANIC ABSTRACTION?

VISUAL METAPHOR ORGANIC ABSTRACTION

USING ELEMENTS FROM NATURE TO SYMBOLIZE SOMETHING FROM YOUR

LIFE, OR A MOOD, OR FEELING

TAKING ELEMENTS FROM NATURE AND ZOOMING IN, SIMPLIFYING OR ALTERING TO

MAKE THEM LESS RECOGNIZABLE

FIGURATIVE ABSTRACT★ELEMENTS WITHIN THE PICTURE

ARE RECOGNIZABLE FROM LIFE

✦ELEMENTS WITHIN THE PICTURE NOT RECOGNIZABLE AS SOMETHING SPECIFIC

★ARTIST USES OPTICAL, LINEAR OR ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE TO CREATE A SENSE OF DEPTH

✦ARTIST PLACES AN EMPHASIS ON COLOR, SHAPE AND TEXTURE COMMUNICATING A GESTURE OR MOOD

★ARTIST USES RENDERING TO DESCRIBE FORM

✦EXPRESSION MAY BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN RENDERING

ABSTRACTING NATUREART 2 ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

MINI PORTFOLIO

1. OUTDOOR CLASSWORK: Three gesture sketches (quick sketchbook drawings that focus on observing the natural landscape around Skyline’s campus

2. SKETCHBOOK HOMEWORK: Create a drawing that abstracts one of your gesture studies done in class

3. VISUAL METAPHOR PIECE: Create a figurative drawing or painting that demonstrates a personal visual metaphor

4. ORGANIC ABSTRACTION: Create an abstract drawing or painting that alters or simplifies something from nature

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