【美国人物志】乔治亚·奥基弗 (5/11)

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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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Georgia O'Keeffe
"Blue Lines."
Alfred Stieglitz
New York City
Two Ninety One（画作名称，保留原格式）Georgia O'Keeffe began to search for her own style. She used only charcoal, the black material made from burned wood. In her book about her life, she wrote that she decided to limit herself to charcoal until she found she really needed color to do what she needed to do. She wrote that six months later she found she needed the color blue. She used it for a watercolor painting she called "Blue Lines."
Georgia O'Keeffe had met the famous art critic and photographer Alfred Stieglitz at his New York City gallery in 1908. Their friendship grew as they wrote letters to each other. In 1915, O'Keeffe told a friend that she wanted her art to please Alfred Stieglitz more than anyone else. That friend showed O'Keeffe's charcoal drawings to Stieglitz. Stieglitz liked her drawings enough to show them in his art gallery, called Two Ninety One.