Georgia O'Keeffe is an artist who hates and draws flowers

Mercy of mourning

In one of the episodes of the famous series "Breaking Bad", young drug dealer Jesse befriends a charming girl interested in art and tattoos, who has a dark taste in choosing her clothes of neutral colors, and in an attempt to introduce it to her world suggests that he go to the museum artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and be the best way to convince a young man Interested in the art to go is to show him that most of her paintings resemble female intimate organs.

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the most famous artists in the history of art, especially modern art, mostly by male artists, but she never paid attention to the abstract biological fact of being a female, but spent her life making the art she feels she wants to present to the world.

She wanted to create pure American art that was recognizable, she spent years painting desert landscapes and flowers but she also had an abstract tendency, but somehow O'Keeffe was reduced to being a flower painter, flowers filling the paintings as drawn under a microscope, making them resemble other elements, and because of that remarkable look For O'Keeffe as a feminist icon, was she really?

Georgia O'Keeffe and Feminist
It was O'Keefi's emotional response when she heard questions about her paintings about flowers, and whether she really meant to look like female intimate organs or not. Georgia might not really hate flowers. On another occasion, Venus was regarded as a small miracle and an integrated world. In your hands and reflect on it is your world for a moment, most urban dwellers are rushing do not have time to look, and I want to bring them flowers whether they like it or not. "

This can be considered one of the few interpretations Georgia gave about its art, but it did not pay much attention to the analysis of the meanings and did not pay attention to all the impressions surrounding it or the interpretations of Erotic or feminism of its work, but preferred to let it communicate with its recipients without interference from them, critics intervened in the interpretation of her work, first of them Alfred Stillgitz Who became her husband, and promoted that vision that would become popular for her work in terms of analytical psychology and Freud's theories of sexuality and the subconscious in 1919.

So the theories that made O'Keeffe's reputation are made by others in general and men in particular, and by having the status of that feminism icon was a coincidence. Preaching or sermons inspired the creativity that led to subsequent feminist activities.

But she did not want to participate in any event called feminist, refused to be associated with events and societies related to the "art of women", she was opposed to the idea of ​​different artists from artists, and considered that her career can not be linked to sexual discrimination, and wished to be in the public eye a modernist artist Or an American, not a woman artist.

The multiplicity of art
O'Keeffe's paintings have a very open nature, which allows to accept multiple readings and interpretations, but over the years of her work during her life, even after her death, she is reduced to being pictures of intimate female organs. The flower and its impact on the eye of delicacy and beauty.

But it can also be condemned for suspicion of sexual discrimination, promoting the flowers of O'Keefe as an erotic female art that robs her of her status as an impartial artist from the burdens of sex and classifications, and places her as an artist, a woman who should be expected of topics of a certain nature that do not come out of her, including conditionally linking femininity to softness Texture and color.

Here lies the classes that can be studied in the character of O'Keeffe and its relationship to her art, she does not evade being a female but does not make art because it is female, and that extends to the way she presents herself to the world, her own body and physical existence and how she chooses to wear it can be an entrance to understand her vision of femininity And its stylistic features.

Feminism and fashion
Jogja O'Keeffe married Adam Stillgitz, who took pictures of her from his point of view and how she saw her, as a beautiful and sometimes seduced woman, completely fragile and natural, devoid of artificial glamor and laid-off femininity.If there is any kind of seduction in those pictures it stems from her being. Perhaps these images, including the femininity and abstract reason to wear Okevi drawings of flowers sensual female connotations, because of its smoothness and wrapping papers, critics wrote its era and even our era about her art as a woman art and not feminist.

But apart from her art, one can consider how she presents herself as a body occupying space in photographs and in life, and how her artistic reductionist characteristics translate into her dress style, which enhances her visibility as a feminist icon because of her rejection of prevailing feminine beauty standards, her adoption of sharp and reduced aesthetics, taut hair Back, clothes with neutral colors and a calm, frowning face expression.

O'Keeffe did not deal with concepts such as feminism directly, but she consciously embraced her on her existence, especially with her success in a male-dominated field. Her abstract existence and being what she became became a feminist inspiration, what she did without much thought and a lot of spontaneity and unconvincing power. As an example of women, it is like a description that a person should not adopt to take off.