Wednesday, April 27, 2011
This painting is called "Rams Head With Hollyhock and Little Hills"and was created by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1935. This picture shows a cloudy, almost stormy-like sky with low mountains and a floating skull with a white flower beside of it. During this time, O'Keeffe was involved in the feminist movement which began in the early 1920's. During this time, women were trying to find their place in the art world that was once dominated by men. This painting was painted during her time spent living in New Mexico, explaining the landscape and dead land of the desert area also known as "O'Keeffe Country." She had just ended her marriage to art dealer, Alfred Stieglitz, and the sky could be suggesting her storm beginning or maybe passing as she is free in New Mexico to paint as she pleases, although she is now alone at her new home, Ghost Ranch. She shows the power of nature throughout her art as she related this to her own life in her later years. This style of painting, using skulls and flowers, symbolizing life and death, became O'Keeffe's more popular subject and ended up being a style of art that we all know of her today. This painting became an icon for the feminist movement because of the power shown in the these series of paintings.
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