Abstract
This paper details the life and many accomplishments of acclaimed artist Georgia O'Keeffe and probes her brilliant use of every color on the palate. The writer also discusses how O'Keeffe's unique artistic methods are currently used in art teaching on every level from elementary schools to the finest universities throughout the world.
Topics covered in this report include:
Thesis Statement
O'Keeffe's Theoretical Context of Post Modernism
The Impacts of O'Keeffe's Use of Color
O'Keeffe's Treatment of Gender and Sexuality
Georgia O'Keeffe - The Artist's Context and the Person
Bibliography

From the Paper
"However, with undaunted enthusiasm from 1950 through 1964 she did continue to produce works albeit not many with the zeal and fire and passion of her earlier works in the formative years. And, when loss of eyesight handicapped her further in the early seventies she began working in three dimensional art works in clay and with the assistance of Jaun Hamilton reentering the art world in 1973."

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Abstract
This paper discusses the art of Georgia O'Keeffe and relates this to three of her paintings, "Red Canna" (c.1923), "Ranchos Church"(1931) and "Horse's Skull with Pink Rose" (1931). The paper shows how O'Keeffe produced works with a blend of abstraction and pictorialism, notably for subjects such as flowers, animal bones and landscapes. Her work places a stress on contours and tonal transitions and her large flower paintings in particular are often seen as yonic symbols, meaning representations of the female sexual organ.

From the Paper
"Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the great modernist painters in America. She was born in 1887 and died in 1966. O'Keeffe was a leading figure in American art for 70 years and remains influential to this day. This is what O'Keeffe does in this painting: Her painting "Ranchos Church" (1931) is one of several she did of the "Rancho de Taos Church" in Taos, New Mexico and other artists have emulated her and painted the same structure. The image in the painting is deceptively simplified, giving an impression of the shape of the church rather than an accurate rendering of the building. The texture of the image makes it appear organic, as if the building were a living thing emerging from the ground, with both the same color and differentiated from the blue of the sky above."

Tags:o'keeffe, painting, style

Abstract
This paper explains how Georgia O'Keeffe was a distinguished artist whose works illustrate the possibilities of potential of every artist determined to succeed. It shows how she was instrumental in exposing an artistic style that became dominant in America during the 20th century. Her work is often described as abstract, expressionistic, and passionate. O'Keeffe's life is filled with accomplishments that can be attributed to her determination to express herself as well as possible through her paintings. She was courageous and passionate, and these qualities shine through her vast collection of diverse paintings.

From the Paper
"O'Keeffe was one of the first female painters to become recognized for her work, which is quite an achievement considering that when she began painting, women were not allowed to vote. (Spangenburg 4) O'Keeffe's early exposure to the women's suffrage movement is perhaps one of the most influential factors in her life. According to John Kehoe, this independence was present in every aspect of her life. He says, "She made most of her own clothes. She did not drink, avoided sugar, took a quantity of vitamins, and abjured all drugs, medicinal and otherwise: Her cure for a headache was wrapping a warm scarf around her head" (Kehoe). Even her personal life illustrates a dogged individuality."

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Abstract
O'Keeffe is mostly known for her blend of abstraction and pictorialism which she applied to flowers, animal bones and landscapes. This paper looks at her style and how it stressed contours and tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image. Focusing on the painting "The Shelton With Sunspots", the writer argues that, although the painting shows elements of the Precisionist style, it also demonstrates O'Keeffe's unique manner of interpreting her chosen subject.

From the Paper
"O'Keeffe is associated with the abstract art movement of the early twentieth century. Basically, abstractionism is a style that rejects realism and seeks to reduce subject matter to basic shapes. O'Keeffe's use of abstraction was influenced more by Asian art and the work of Wassily Kandinsky than by Cubism, which she regarded as "a relic of European Renaissance that was not native to American culture."1 O'Keeffe was also influenced by photography, the craft that was practiced by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. In the 1920s, O'Keeffe was also associated with a group of artists known as the "Precisionists." The Precisionists created works that were a "compromise between realism and abstraction," and which featured "precise technique" and "sharp-edged and simplified forms."2 Despite the influences of abstractionism, photography and the Precisionists, O'Keeffe was an individualist who "aspired to a style that was timeless, universal, and, above, all, impersonal."3"

Tags:precisionist, element, subject, style

Abstract
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."

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From the Paper
Outline
I. Introduction
II. Georgia O'Keeffe
A. Life
B. Contributions to art
C. Attitude to her art
D. Critical views
E. Formal elements
III. Specific works
A. Cow's Skull--Red, White and Blue (1931)
B. Horse's Skull with White Rose (1931)
C. From the Faraway Nearby (1937)
D. Ram's Head-Hollyhock (1932)
IV. Considerations of these four works as they indicate forms ... "

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Abstract
This paper discusses two of the leading abstract artists in America in the Twentieth Century, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ronnie Landfield. This paper takes into consideration their subjects, styles, and how they differ, with O'Keeffe beginning work as a more realistic painter until various influences pushed her more toward abstract art, though even then she tended to mix her styles and to paint her abstractions in a concrete and rather realistic manner, and with the leading figure in what is known as Lyrical Abstraction.

From the Paper
"His compositions, executed in the gentle vibrancy of stain painting, are stylization of landscapes. Yet, in no real sense is there a dependence on observation from nature. His landscapes present no identifying details, they are not individualized by topographical details and cannot be located in the world . They are generically landscapes, landscapes only by principles of composition and according to the interpretive reflex by which we necessarily read any horizontal division as a horizon line (Cohen para. 7)."

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Abstract
The paper relates that the highest grossing coffee beverage in Japan is Coca-Cola's Georgia. This unique coffee beverage can be served hot or cold. Following is the marketing information for an introduction of Georgia into the United States. Included in this, is a market analysis, an industry and competitor assessment and the marketing strategy that will be employed.

From the Paper
"Market Analysis: As noted, Georgia is the highest grossing coffee beverage in Japan; however, to successfully enter the United States market, a different market segment should be targeted. Instead of targeting adult beverage drinkers, the late teen, early twenties age demographic should be targeted for American Georgia. Young adults between the ages of 12 and 21 spend $217 billion a year, in the retail market (Clements). In fact, teenage girls spend approximately $47 per week, while boys spend $45 per week ("Girl Power")."

Tags:georgia, coffee, coca, cola

Abstract
Between the years of 1912 and 1914 the entire temper of the American arts changed. America's cultural coming-of-age occurred and writing in the U.S. moved from a period entitled traditional to modernist. These changes engaged an America of rising intellectual opportunities and intensifying artistic preoccupation. With the changes came opportunity for male and female artists. And although female leadership in most careers was scorned by the modernizing society, artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Gwen John and Suzanne Valadon demonstrated that opportunity was blind to gender and opened its door to all who would knock. This paper examines the lives and careers of these three artists and examines some of their artwork. The paper also includes colored copies of the works discussed.

From the Paper
"After the war, although the experience cast a dark shadow on the optimistic American evaluation of the world, America pulled herself out of the trenches of Germany and France, and decided it had come of age. America, the fledgling democracy which was just over a hundred years in age, entered the war and turned the tide of aggression that all of Europe could not contain. With this new courage, and a national sentiment that valued the traditions of its past, America went looking for herself, and found her portrait painted by the words of the modernist poet, and on the canvases of abstract painters."

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Abstract
In any era, the term still life means virtually the same thing: "the depiction of objects that lack the capacity for self-governed motion".
In these days of composites, both of subject matter and technique, the term can probably be expanded to include items that are able to move, but for reasons of aesthetics of concept, are treated artistically as if they were inanimate. This thesis applies nowhere better than to still life photography. In considering the ramifications of the term, this paper investigates the forms of western still life leading up to the present-when form and creative media are so often used in ways that were not possible before-to help to define the genre of the contemporary photographic still life.

Paper Outline:
Still Life Photography Today
Still Life Traditions
Paintings, Origins
Photography
Impact of Postmodern Art on Still Life
Impact of New Technologies
Closing Paragraph
Bibliography

From the Paper
"This sort of inclusion opened the way for artists such as Robert Therrien, whose work in the 1990s-a weird wooden table-could also be termed a still life (Herrera, 1997, unpaged). In the same show, a painting by Cezanne depicted a platter of pears tipped onto a different plane than the table and rests on what would be, in normal perspective, air. "The table thus continues one of the great themes of still lifes-echoing previous works" (Herrera, 1997, unpaged). The show itself was called Objects of Desire, and included works by Picasso and Matisse as well as other modern masters, all working in still life, and all working at a time when photography could have paralleled their work and, with its obvious genius for depicting what is rather than what might be, could have overshadowed them."

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