Why Did Okeeffe Paint Skulls
Rather Than Championing the Landscape and Towns – the Approach of Movements Like Regionalism and American Scene Painting – She Painted a Weather-Beaten Cow’s...
Rather than championing the landscape and towns – the approach of movements like Regionalism and American Scene painting – she painted a weather-beaten cow’s skull to represent the true spirit of America.
Why did O'Keeffe paint skulls?
In 1930 Georgia O’Keeffe witnessed a drought in the Southwest that resulted in the starvation of many animals, whose skeletons littered the landscape. She was fascinated by these bones and shipped a number of them back to New York City.
What role do skulls play in Georgia O Keeffe's art?
“In the 1940s, O’Keeffe’s paintings of floating skulls gave way to depictions of pelvises and the horns of rams and goats, alongside a renewed interest in abstraction, one that would dominate her late output. These pictures are more abstract than the skulls, often with little or no sense of context,” writes Griffin.
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