Georgia O Keeffe: Painting Analysis
The artist I had chosen for my PowerPoint presentation was Georgia O’Keeffe. The first example of her work is Easter Sunrise was made in 1953 and is an oil on canvas painting. Easter Sunrise depicts a mountain side and shining from the corner of the mountain is a brilliant white cross. As far as the technical excellence of this painting, the colors are varying degrees of browns, gold and white. Georgia O’Keeffe uses form really well. Even though she uses one mountain as the main focus, in the background there are other mountains and road leading into the distance. In the forefront of the painting there are trees and the road. I think that balance is more informal or asymmetrical because of the main focus of the one mountain, but somehow
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I think the form used here is alright. Though there is not much detail in the background especially behind the house and the big tree, it appears that O’Keeffe did a good job. The balance looks informal because of the big tree and the house taking up a lot of the watercolor. There are a few little trees in front of the house and big tree. I think the validity of this watercolor is that O’Keeffe was true to herself. It looks a little weird because it doesn’t look like her later work of the desert. Since it is her early work, I think at the time, she was being true to herself and her worldview. The intellectual content I would say, it looks like it could be a Christian worldview. Also House with Tree - Green looks like it is simply made. Since it was O’Keeffe’s early work and also made with watercolors, I think it shows she can grow more as an artist. The integration of content and vehicle of this watercolor is how she managed to create a beautiful watercolor of a house and the surrounding trees. I like how O’Keeffe has created this early in her career especially with watercolors. I think that it says something to her artistry that so early in her career that she enjoys landscapes and nature scenery and how she manages to continue on with it through
I think the form used here is alright. Though there is not much detail in the background especially behind the house and the big tree, it appears that O’Keeffe did a good job. The balance looks informal because of the big tree and the house taking up a lot of the watercolor. There are a few little trees in front of the house and big tree. I think the validity of this watercolor is that O’Keeffe was true to herself. It looks a little weird because it doesn’t look like her later work of the desert. Since it is her early work, I think at the time, she was being true to herself and her worldview. The intellectual content I would say, it looks like it could be a Christian worldview. Also House with Tree - Green looks like it is simply made. Since it was O’Keeffe’s early work and also made with watercolors, I think it shows she can grow more as an artist. The integration of content and vehicle of this watercolor is how she managed to create a beautiful watercolor of a house and the surrounding trees. I like how O’Keeffe has created this early in her career especially with watercolors. I think that it says something to her artistry that so early in her career that she enjoys landscapes and nature scenery and how she manages to continue on with it through