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Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe is a famous American painter who painted beautiful flowers and landscapes. But she painted these images in such a way that many people believed she was portraying sexual imagery. "O'Keefe's depictions of flowers in strict frontality and enlarged to giant scale were entirely original in character . . . the view into the open blossoms evoked an image of the female psyche and invited erotic associations." (Joachimides 47) O'Keefe denies these allegations and says that she "magnified the scale of the flower only to ensure people would notice them." (Haskell 203) O'Keefe's artwork was misinterpreted because of cultural prejudice, her non-traditional lifestyle, and gender bias art criticism. But despite these accusations, Georgia O'Keefe's artwork was not based on sexuality.
O'Keefe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her parents were dairy farmers and throughout her childhood she lived on her family's farm. Georgia had a......

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