Monday, April 25, 2011
This is Georgia O'Keeffe's picture "Sky Above Clouds," created in 1962. This picture Georgia O'Keeffe created was during O'Keefe's early years where she returned to abstraction, which is present in many of her works while moving to New Mexico and after being involved with modernism which is what she is known for now through art history. This painting, created in the early 1960's, was inspired by airplane views as she was traveling back and forth between New Mexico and New York. This painting is one of a series of paintings created during this time period of her views of the world as she was looking down from the sky. These clouds are all altered throughout the picture, never having any two to be the same. These clouds show that not everything or everyone is the same or even what we think it is. The sky is show on two different horizons even though our view is shown on a higher plane. This painting shows how beautiful life is and how nothing is as we see it as she journeys to pursue her new life in New Mexico without her husband or marriage to Alfred Steiglitz, who held her back in some aspects of her career and even portraying her in a negative image. Overall, I believe that this picture shows the way that everything changes in someones life and how nothing is how it seems.
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