Georgia O'Keeffe

Term Paper # 2396

Art
Art > Artists
Sociology

Georgia O'Keeffe

A look at the ideals of contemporary art with focus on one artist: Georgia O'Keeffe.

2,225 words () | 11 sources | 2000 United States

Paper Summary:

A critical analysis of contemporary art. The author focuses on Georgia O' Keeffe, a postmodern artist and examines her postmodern ideas about culture and gender that she communicates through her use of style, color content and artistic context.

From the Paper:

"Art represents human construction. Moreover, it is a mode of communication because its? meaning resides in encounters between an audience and an artifact. As such through her art, American painter Georgia O'Keeffe communicates not only the post-modern time in which she constructed, but also the cultural and gender influences that affected her color content and overall artistic context. In focusing upon the latter works of the prolific artist Georgia O'Keeffe one robs oneself of some, if not all of the formative aspects of her long and illustrious career. Particularly significant is that from 1950 forward to her death at 98 in 1986, not only did her health begin to fail her but her most precious gift - that of her amazing eyesight - robs this amazing artist of the very opportunities of expression she sought after the death of her husband in 1946."