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Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled, vase of flowers, watercolor on paper, 17 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (45.1 cm × 29.2 cm), between 1903 and 1905. O'Keeffe experimented with depicting flowers in her high school art class. Her teacher explained how important it was to examine the flower before drawing it.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Drawing No. 2 - Special, charcoal on Fabriano laid paper, 60 x 46.3 cm (23 5/8 x 18 1/4 in.), 1915, National Gallery of Art Charcoal drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe from 1915 represents Georgia O'Keeffe's first major exploration of abstract art and attainment of a freedom to explore her artistic talents based upon what she felt and envisioned. [1]
Hilda Belcher, The Checkered Dress, 1907, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.The painting is likely a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe. [a]Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, [15] [16] in a farmhouse in the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Joanna Koerten, (married name Joanna Block) (17 November 1650 in Amsterdam – 28 December 1715 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch artist who excelled in painting, drawing, embroidery, glass etching, and wax modeling. She achieved fame as a silhouette cutter, the art of creating outline images from pieces of cut paper mounted on a contrasting background ...
He created fifty different block-printed wallpapers, all with intricate, stylised patterns based on nature, particularly upon the native flowers and plants of Britain. His wallpapers and textile designs had a major effect on British interior designs, and then upon the subsequent Art Nouveau movement in Europe and the United States. [1]
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (/ ɡ oʊ ˈ ɡ æ n /; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
Born in Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour first had drawing lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was a painter. [2] In 1850 he moved to Paris where he enrolled in the small Paris School of Drawing, where he studied with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, an innovative and non-traditional instructor who developed his own ...
Above all, the hybrid tea roses with their lush flower shape and countless colour variations held a special fascination. [17] In line with this, the painter used heavy, tinted paper. The background of the picture was usually designed with watercolours, the actual motif was created by applying water-soluble top paints.