Close up

This painting is by Georgia Okeefe

In the Georgia Okeefe Museum

Title: Abstraction White Rose

Date: 1927

I liked this painting by Georgia Okeefe because we have been discussing her work in class. She was a painter who fought against the name of the best woman painter, but wanted to be thought of as the best painter. She did not feel her work was that characterized by her gender and those types of stereotypes. Even though she fought against the title of the best woman painter, she somewhat remained that title. Her work was very feminist in the respect her subjects were those chosen by women including flowers, radical close ups, etc. She chose to do radical closeups like the one here of the White Rose Abstraction. This is a way in which artists can make the familiar, unfamiliar to the eye. She portrayed many works of art in a radical close up of different flowers. The feminist aspects came through the ones more colorful and beautiful; they resembles women genitalia and reinforced the beauty of the human form. This painting of the White Rose Abstraction is only one of the beautiful radical closeups Georgia Okeefe created. These closeups brought out details, colors, lines, etc. that are not usually the focus of your attention.