Georgia O'Keeffe inspired Giant Flower Art Project for Kids
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
- Georgia O' Keeffe
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Georgia O'Keeffe was a famous American painter best known for her dream like paintings of giant flowers and Southwestern landscapes. She aimed to capture the essence and feeling of an object, rather than the exact image.
Georgia was one of six children. She spent her early life in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She was fascinated and inspired by nature from a very early age. It is said that by the time she was in eighth grade she knew she wanted to be an artist.
She studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the Art Students League in New York City. Georgia started pursuing a career in art at a time when women were not considered artists. The only way a woman could make a living as an artist was to be an art teacher. Georgia got her first teaching position at a school in Amarillo, Texas. This move West was vital in the development of her work. In 1924, Georgia began painting her most famous work; paintings of large, colorful flowers. These were the paintings that made her famous and afforded her the ability to set roots out West in Santa Fe, NM - her home away from home, which she called "the faraway."
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In her later years, O'Keeffe suffered from macular degeneration and began to lose her eyesight. However, her urge to create did not cease." I can see what I want to paint," she said at the age of 90." The thing that makes you want to create is still there." Georgia died on March 6, 1986. She was 99 years old.
