:lol: I thought that it was my imagination playing games. I am relieved now, since someone has the same impression.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bii
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:lol: I thought that it was my imagination playing games. I am relieved now, since someone has the same impression.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bii
It's not just you. The paper I wrote contained about a page and a half on that subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bii
O'Keefe totally denied that her paintings resembled anything other than flowers. Maybe she didn't intend them to look like female body parts, but some of them do. Dunno. She said the following about the issue:
I remember the squeals of outrage in my American Art class a couple of years ago, when the "kids" (sorry, but 19 and 20 year olds are kids to me) were showed slides of O' Keefe's work. I clearly remember some girl saying "Ew". :rolleyes: I think I sprained an eyeball with all the rolling my eyes did that day.Quote:
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
I think her paintings of poppies are among my favorites.
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...al-poppies.jpg
She somewhat danced around the issue, actually. To quote my paper:Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
Oh, say no more, say no more, wink wink, nudge nudge, nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?Quote:
"That’s something people themselves put into the paintings”, she told Dorothy Seiberling, “They’ve found things that never entered my mind. That doesn’t mean they weren’t there, but the the things they said astonished me." [Emphasis mine]
Of course it's possible that she was ambivalent about it because Alfred Steiglitz, her husband and promoter, insisted that they were girly bits.
Gah.Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
My favorite is Giorgio De Chirico
The Nostalgia of the Infinite
http://www.colchsfc.ac.uk/art/De%20Chirico.jpg
Melancholy and the Mystery of the Street
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chirico/chirico9a.JPG
These both are earlier, around 1914 paintings, in later years he switched to a much more surrealist style, however these earlier paintings are the ones I fell in love with and my favorites.
p.s. I was lucky enough to see many of his paintings within the Rome museum of modern art :D .
Monet, including his haystacks which I once saw 20 or 30 together in one show.
Good to know. I thought her flowers were the most boring paintings ever before I read this thread and found out that some people think they resemble er, girl stuff. Clearly those are not just poppies. Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
NYC Line Artist Ty Wilson. he's a small fry compared to some of the names being dropped here. I have his Paris Blue and The Date prints framed.
i'd like to post them but still cant figure out how. :(
Hmm, well it isn't just some people. Check out what cuppajoe says in his post. The resemblences to genitalia were remarkable enough to some people to cause quite a stir about O'Keefe's work. God I feel so stupid at my age being embarrased to write the word "genitalia" in a post. :blush: I mean, some of her paintings look suggestive to me, and some don't and honestly...I don't really care. I mentioned a while ago when asked about symbolism in art that I am completely superficial, I like looking at the pictures and that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
To me, those poppies look like poppies, and poppies are some of my favorite flowers...and wasn't it Freud who said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". He was big on seeing symbolized "naughty bits" too.
According to at least one of O'Keefe's biographers, she pursued a lesbian relationship with artist Rebecca Strand, and her marriage to Stieglitz was one of convenience. I guess we could make an argument about her subconscious desires coming through in her art, but frankly, I'd rather quote Monty Python...*wink wink, nudge nudge*. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by cuppajoe_9
Claude-Joseph Vernet: Storm on a Mediterranean Coast
http://www.latribunedelart.com/Nouve...erraneenne.jpg
Sentimentalism anyone? :yawnb:
Kathy is all over it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1jt
i really, really like o'keefe too..especially her painting called "the blue wave"...the colors are incredible...i have yet to be able to find it tho...i first saw it in one of her calendars in the 80s...
another one is edward hopper...a lot of people will probably will probably recognize his bar scene "nighthawks"...but he has many more...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/4...a5cf89a9_o.jpg
Is that it, littlewing?
Is it just me or is there something about that painting that makes you want to stop and look at it for ages?Quote:
Originally Posted by cuppajoe_9
awesome cuppa joe !!!...***humbly bows** i have been looking for that picture 4ever...and could never find it...i wanted to get a print....thank you ever so much...can you tell me the link to go there and get it so i can hold it n hug it...i thought it was one of her best ones...and yes niamh i agree, the colors of blue are just beautiful... :)...again this forum comes thru...i so enjoy everyone here...:)