Summary O Keeefe

Most major capital cities have museums dedicated to Modern Art. The subject matter or objects in the work are: factories, buildings, river, and the steam from the factories. The oil on canvas artwork is in 2D form, painting. The emphasis and elements that the artist used are, lines of the factories and the river. The dreary colors and the smoke symbolize the pollution in the air and the hostile environment. With this the artist is showing that she was unhappy with the contemporary city lifestyle. Georgia O'Keefe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. After her husband, Stieglitz's death she moved to New Mexico and was motivated by the landscape. She received an education from the Art Institute of Chicago. O'Keefe sustained painting, until her death on March 6th, 1986. She is well known for her flower artworks and other masterpieces as well. She found Alfred Stieglitz, an advocate and gallery owner, who ended up becoming her husband. He showed her work to the public for the 1st time, in 1916 at his gallery. O'Keefe is known as an American abstract artist, one of the key artists of the 20th century. The circumstances of her life as mirrored in her work, are from when she married in 1924. Her subject matter changed, from nature's
She learned the revolutionary ideas of Dow and his importance on the work of art and design, which presented O'Keefe a substitute to realism. Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and educator for his teachings based on Japanese principles of art. Factories at Clichy, is a piece by Vincent van Gogh that I believe compares to this work of O'Keefe's. Both paintings are oil on canvas and they are representing the filthy smoke that comes out of the factories and pollutes our environment. The artworks contrast in the way that they are by different artists, and while O'Keefe's includes the city and river, Gogh's piece has only grass and