First time I knew Georgio O'keeffe was from the slide during the lecture in DVA this year. The slide introduced Judy Chicago's installation art "Dinner Party" (1979), the Dinner Party composed in part of thirty nine plates with vaginal imagery honoring thirty-nine women from prehistory to the early twentieth century.From screen, Georgio O'keeffe's work was set on the first place at left side from the angle. We were introduced Chicago's Dinner Party drew criticism from many feminists for what they believed to be its ' essentialism', or its association between women and an essential biological quality like the possession of a vagina, although it was enormously popular with the general public. Georgia O'keeffe's flower- vagina like art was so obviously, I could not help cennecting to the sexuality. In the library, there is a book related to O'keeffe and the women of the Stieglitz circle "Modernism and the Feminine Voice" during my research about the gender and feminism. I was charmed by her fantastic drawing especially her unique drawing style related to the various flowers, and her neurotic appearance. I felt more curious about O'keeffe's background and her art.
Georgia O'keeffe(1887 ~1986) was born in a farm house on a large dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Nov. 15, 1887, the second of seven children. As a child she received art lessons at home, and she was recognized and encouraged by teacher for her brilliant art abilities through out her school years. When she was in the eighth grade she had determined to make her way as an artist. "I am going to be an artist!" " I don't really know where I got my artist idea... I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind." http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe3.html
During her study in school, she was influenced by some teachers. One particular teacher, Elizabeth Willis encouraged her to work at her own pace and afforded her opportunities that the other students felt unfair. 1905~1906, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. 1907~1908, at the Art students League, New York, then moved to Chicago to find a work as a commercial artist. During this period, she quit her brush for the sake of the smelly of turpentine. 1912, she went to Texas as a drawing teaching position. In the same time, she took a summer course for art teachers at the University of virginia.1912 ~1914, She taught art in Texas public schools and working summers in Virginia s Bement's assistant. Another teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow had made big influence on her about the idea for art making. Dow believed that the goal of the artist's personal ideas and feelings and that such subject matter was best realized through harmonious arrangements of line, color and notan(the Japanese system of lights and darks). He encorage O'keeffe experited with Dow's ideas for an alternative to imitative realism. She then decided to try Dow's theories to the test. In an attempt to discover a personal language through which she could express her own feelings and ideas.She tried a series of abstract charcoal drawing of the period.
u take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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