【美国人物志】乔治亚·奥基弗 (8/11)

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乔治亚·奥基弗 Georgia O‘Keeffe ）或 乔治亚·欧姬芙Georgia Totto O'Keeffe（1887年11月15日~1986年3月6日）是一位美国艺术家，被列为20世纪的艺术大师之一。欧姬芙的绘画作品已经成为1920年代美国艺术的经典代表，她以半抽象半写实的手法闻名，其主题相当具有特色，多为花朵微观、岩石肌理变化，海螺、动物骨头、荒凉的美国内陆景观为主。她的作品中常充满著同色调的细微变化，组成具有韵律感的构图，某些时候欧姬芙画中的物品外轮廓，让观者感到此物品的清脆感。
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New YorkersIn 1930, Georgia O'Keeffe began spending most of her summers in the state of New Mexico. She called it "the faraway." She painted big pictures of desert flowers and the high rocky hills. She also began to paint pictures of the bones she found during walks near her summer home. Most of her paintings share the qualities of largeness of subject and richness of color. The artist discussed these two qualities in her book, called "Georgia O'Keefe." She wrote that color is more exact in meaning than words. Later, she wrote that she found she could say things with color and shape that she could not express in words. She also spoke of a special need to paint her subjects larger than they are in life. She seemed to want to force people to see more deeply into objects such as flowers. She tried to show the different shapes and colors within a single flower. The artist said she would make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what she saw in flowers.