Surprise! Georgia O’Keeffe painted more than landscapes!
Nude Series VIII, 1917
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Problem…Nude models were definitely frowned upon for women artists in 1917.
Solution…O’Keeffe used her own body as her model.
Photograph by Tony Vaccaro / Getty
Problem… How to abstract landscape?
Solution… O’Keefe mimicked the rhythms of nature and eliminated details.
Sunrise and Little Clouds, 1916
Georgia O’Keffee Museum
Georgia O’Keeffe, age 30, Texas, 1916
Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
O’Keeffe photographed at home in Abiquiú, New Mexico Photo by Philippe Halsman, 1948
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” Georgia O’Keeffe
Back by Popular Demand: Picasso, you rascal, you!
Portrait de Dora Maar, 1936
Picasso’s lover and muse
Portrait de Marie-Therese Walter, 1932
Mistress of Picasso
Picasso:
“I remember one day while I was painting Guernica in the big studio in the Rue des Grands-Augustins, Dora Maar was with me. Marie-Therese dropped in and when she found Dora there, she grew angry and said to her ‘I have a child by this man. It’s my place to be here with him. You can leave right now.’
Dora said, ‘I have as much reason as you have to be here. I haven’t borne him a child but I don’t see what difference that makes.’
I kept on painting and they kept on arguing.
Finally, Marie-Therese turned to me and said, ‘Make up your mind. Which one of us goes?’
It was a hard decision to make. I liked them both, for different reasons: Marie-Therese because she was sweet and gentle, and did whatever I wanted her to; Dora because she was intelligent. I decided I had no interest in making a decision. I was satisfied with things as they were. I told them they’d have to fight it out themselves. So they began to wrestle. It’s one of my choicest memories.”
Hall, D. & Wykes, P. (1990). Anecdotes of Modern Art. As Picasso told Francoise Gilot.
Watch the great Picasso paint!
Click here to view the video.
International Art on the Edge! Kirby at Tijuana Museum
Border Wall: Are You In or Are You Out?
Kirby Kendrick
Art installation representing the wall between the US and Mexico. Corrugated tin, spray paint, stencil, collage, wire, and mirrored material.
Step close to the art installation. A “wall” is painted with graffiti and topped with barbed wire. You see your reflection in the mirror. The question…”Are YOU in front of the wall or are YOU behind the wall?”
Watch this short video of the exhibition. It’s exciting!
GLORIOUS ART!
Christ is born.
And the angel said: “this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths, and lying in a manger.” Luke 2:12
Nativity, Birth of Jesus, 1306
Giotto de Bondone (1266-1337)
Black Madonna and Child in Haiti
UK 2005 Christmas stamp
Baby Jesus, 1965
Clementine Hunter (1886-1988)
