Alfred Stieglitz and Geogia OKeeffe

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Alfred Stieglitz and Geogia OKeeffe

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Timeline

• His wife divorced him in 1924.
• Alfred Stieglitz arrives in New York at 54 in
  1925.
• His photography career ended in 1937 due to heart
  disease.

• During the winter months, she completed her first
  flower painting in 1924.
• By 1928, Okeeffe felt the need to move to
  different areas, while Stieglitz hated the idea.
• Between 1929 and 1949, she spent time painting in
  New Mexico.

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Georgia OKeeffe

• Georgia OKeeffe washas been a major figure in
  American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly
  known for paintings in which she synthesizes
  abstraction and representation in paintings of
  flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and
  landscapes.

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OKeeffe

• The use of curves and form help create a sense of
  creativity within the circle.
• The space it occupies, coupled with the texture,
  give it a slick feeling to it.

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Quotes

• I hate flowers. I paint them because they're
  cheaper than models and they don't move.
• Objective painting is not good painting unless
  it is good in an abstract sense.

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Alfred Stieglitz

• Alfred Stieglitz was an American born
  photographer who was important in making
  photography an acceptable art form. His
  photographs are known for appearing like other
  art forms

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Stieglitz

• This photograph shows the gritty truth of
  immigration, how people leave their gloomy lives
  and enter Industrial America in hopes of finding
  something better

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Quotes

• The goal of art was the vital expression of
  self.
• In photography there is a reality so subtle that
  it becomes more real than reality.

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Materials and Techniques Used

• Okeeffe
• Oil on canvas
• Watercolors
• Abstract

• Stieglitz
• Photographs
• Realism

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Works Cited

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_o27keeffe
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
• www.1st-art-gallery.com
• www.washacadsci.org
• www.pupress.princeton.edu
• http//www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe3.html