O'Keeffe

by Georgia O'Keeffe

6x6.5 mega squares featuring closeups of her work. 255 pages with biography of O'Keeffe next to each painting. Left side is the biography and right side pictures.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

About the author

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.

Reviews

[Ian McHugh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very well illustrated and colourful account of the life and works of Georgia O'Keefe. Each page is split into a full colourful picture of a work and a section of text. The text builds a rather functional and dull narrative of the life of the artist. Frustratingly, the works that are published alongside the 'key events' of O'Keefe's life do not correspond with the text. This leads to confusion. The information is solid. The images are clear and interesting. I just would've liked more to have been done to bring the life and the work together. Good for an introduction to her work.