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Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe was the American woman who painted in the ways of the abstract realist. She was famous for painting many kinds of flowers, bones, caves as well as city scapes and buildings. The most interesting issue is that she reduced all her paintings to the elemental form of her subjects. It wasn't a replication of reality, but rather a celebration of all the forms, colors, and lines that come together in our world. One interesting aspect of her work is that many critics say that O'Keefe's big bright flower paintings hint at a woman's sexuality. They claim that her flowers take after vaginas. I believe this is not the case. Georgia was simply painting these flowers in their simplest, elemental form.
For starters, I looked at one of her paintings that one may say mirrored after a woman's genitalia. It is the painting called "Jack in the Pulpit" No. IV (1930). For starters we can see the lines are vertical sloping curves. There is a straight line in......

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