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  1. O'Keeffe
    United States painter (1887-1986)
    Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist.
  2. Stieglitz
    United States photographer (1864-1946)
    While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the 291, owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
  3. central vision
    vision using the fovea and parafovea
    At the age of 84, she was losing her central vision and only had peripheral sight, due to an irreversible eye degeneration disease.
  4. coelophysis
    one of the oldest known dinosaurs
    The fossil animal was named Effigia okeeffeae ("O'Keeffe's Ghost") in January 2006, "in honor of Georgia O'Keeffe for her numerous paintings of the badlands at Ghost Ranch and her interest in the Coelophysis Quarry when it was discovered".[14]
  5. Taos
    an artist colony in northern New Mexico
    In May 1929, she set out by train with her friend Beck Strand to Taos, New Mexico.
  6. theropod
    any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
    At first glance, it resembled a smallish theropod dinosaur.
  7. watercolorist
    a painter who paints with watercolors
    She attended Town Hall School in Wisconsin, receiving art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann.
  8. artistic style
    the style of a particular artist or school or movement
    She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style.
  9. New Mexico
    a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
    She found artistic inspiration in the rural Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she settled late in life.
  10. calla lily
    South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
    Her work commanded high prices; in 1928 six of her calla lily paintings sold for $25,000 US dollars, which was the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist.
  11. painting
    creating a picture with paints
    She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.
  12. watercolor
    water-soluble pigment
    While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the 291, owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
  13. varicolored
    having a variety of colors
    The varicolored cliffs of Ghost Ranch inspired some of her most famous landscapes.
  14. fossiliferous
    bearing or containing fossils
    Some rocks from Ghost Ranch (a known fossiliferous locality) were found to contain remains of a very strange animal from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic), the likes of which had never been deemed to exist.
  15. art historian
    a historian of art
    O'Keeffe consistently denied painting vaginal imagery, but many prominent art historians have linked her work to feminist artists of the 1970s.
  16. artwork
    photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
    This drew media attention to O'Keeffe as never before.

    [edit] New Mexico

    Georgia O'Keeffe, Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935, The Brooklyn MuseumBy 1928, O'Keeffe began to feel the need to travel and find more inspiring artwork.
  17. exhibition
    the act of displaying or demonstrating
    While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the 291, owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
  18. architectural
    of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture
    During the 1920s, O'Keeffe made both natural and architectural forms the subject of her work.
  19. art school
    a school specializing in art
    Because her parents believed she did well, they suggested she attend art school.
  20. art
    the creation of beautiful or significant things
    Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s.
  21. photographer
    someone who takes photographs professionally
    While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the 291, owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
  22. at close range
    very close
    By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe began making large-scale paintings of natural forms at close range, as if seen through a magnifying lens.
  23. tonal
    having tonality
    Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors.
  24. art student
    someone studying to be an artist
    In 1907, she attended the Art Students League in New York City, where she studied under William Merritt Chase.
  25. dabble
    bob under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
    O'Keeffe dabbled in pottery herself, and had a large kiln installed at the ranch for firing pots.
  26. Southwest
    the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
    She found artistic inspiration in the rural Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she settled late in life.
  27. hacienda
    the main house on a ranch or large estate
    In 1945, O'Keeffe bought a second home, an abandoned hacienda[8] in Abiquiu, some 16 miles (26 km) south of Ghost Ranch.[8]
  28. calla
    South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
    Her work commanded high prices; in 1928 six of her calla lily paintings sold for $25,000 US dollars, which was the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist.
  29. artist
    person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
    Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist.
  30. landscape
    an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
    She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.
  31. Whitney
    United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin
    In the mid-1940s, the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan sponsored a project to establish the first catalogue of her work.
  32. distinctive
    of a feature that helps to identify a person or thing
    During her second summer there, she began collecting and painting bones, and started painting the distinctive architectural and landscape forms of the area.
  33. painted
    coated with paint
    In 1924 she painted her first large-scale flower painting Petunia, No. 2, which was first exhibited in 1925.
  34. Albuquerque
    the largest city in New Mexico
    They went to Santa Fe and then to Albuquerque.
  35. exhibit
    make visible or apparent
    In April 1916, Stieglitz exhibited ten of her drawings.
  36. subject matter
    what a communication that is about something is about
    She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
  37. kiln
    a furnace for firing, burning, or drying porcelain or bricks
    O'Keeffe dabbled in pottery herself, and had a large kiln installed at the ranch for firing pots.
  38. replete
    filled to satisfaction with food or drink
    Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors.
  39. mastering
    becoming proficient in the use of something
    Only her determination was to lead to mastering her machine.
  40. turpentine
    volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin
    During this period, she did not pick up a paintbrush and said that the smell of turpentine made her sick.
  41. easel
    an upright tripod for displaying something
    At times the wind was so strong that she while painting could hardly hold on the easel.
  42. artistic
    relating to the products of human creativity
    She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style.
  43. studio
    workplace for the teaching or practice of an art
    Stieglitz arranged for O'Keeffe to live in his niece's unoccupied studio apartment and cared for O'Keeffe while she was there.
  44. mural
    a painting that is applied to a wall surface
    In 1932, O'Keeffe suffered a nervous breakdown following an uncompleted Radio City Music Hall mural project that had fallen behind schedule.
  45. cerebral
    of or relating to the brain
    While O'Keeffe was spending the summer of 1946 in New Mexico, Stieglitz suffered a cerebral thrombosis.
  46. fusion
    the act of melding or melting together
    Although many artists had made paintings of the church, O'Keeffe's painting of a fragment of the mission wall silhouetted against the dark blue sky captured it in a different way, a fusion of religion and nature.[7]
  47. Rodin
    French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form
    While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the 291, owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
  48. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
    O'Keeffe consistently denied painting vaginal imagery, but many prominent art historians have linked her work to feminist artists of the 1970s.
  49. pottery
    objects made from clay and baked in a kiln
    O'Keeffe dabbled in pottery herself, and had a large kiln installed at the ranch for firing pots.
  50. photography
    the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces
    Strand's photography, as well as that of Stieglitz and his many photographer friends, inspired O'Keeffe's work.
  51. documentary
    a film presenting the facts about a person or event
    She also allowed a film crew to do a documentary at Ghost Ranch.
  52. iris
    colored part of the eye that controls the size of the pupil
    Works such as "Black Iris III" (1926) evoke a veiled representation of female genitalia.
  53. harmonious
    exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents
    Dow encouraged artists to express themselves through harmonious compositions and contrasts of light and dark.
  54. aerial
    existing, living, growing, or operating in the air
    Below is an external link to a color image of one of these aerial cloudscape canvases.
  55. abstraction
    the process of formulating general concepts
    She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation.
  56. potter
    a craftsperson who makes ceramic objects
    Juan Hamilton, a young potter, appeared at her ranch house in 1973 looking for work.
  57. gallery
    a porch along the outside of a building
    She was inspired to go there because of the natural beauty of the nearby large Palo Duro Canyon, carved by wind and water.[5]

    [edit] New York
    Early in 1916, Anita Pollitzer took some of O'Keeffe's drawings to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery.
  58. arts
    studies intended to provide general knowledge and skills
    In 1962, O'Keeffe was elected to the fifty-member American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Created on 五月 25, 2010 (updated 五月 25, 2010)

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