Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691116598 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"NOT WHAT I EXPECTED" according to Mary. Really nice book but a bit disappointed that 1/2 the book is prose and not artwork or photos of O'Keefe's locations of inspiration. Of 5 chapters, only a chapter and a half shows the side by side photo and painting. 2 interesting photos showing geologic layers named. Haven't read any of it yet. Will update when I do. What artwork is shown is beautiful, of course.. "I gave it to an artist who really likes it." according to Diane Ward. I bought this book for my mom who is an artist.She is a big fan of Georgia O'Keeffe's work. I asked her what she liked best about the book. She said that some of the paintings are accompanied by a photograph of the subject. This gave you insight as to how the artist converted the photo image into her style of painting.. Mike G said In-car companion book for our visit to the places that she painted.. I was visiting friends in New Mexico. We took this book with us on our tour of Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch where she lived and painted. It was exciting to have the book with us because it shows a photograph of the scene she painted and the painting itself next to it. Add being there and seeing it in person while we read about it and it made for a perfect day. It was on this trip that the true value of her contribution to art made itself clear to me. I even have a photo of her in my studio. I guess I'm a fan.
From Publishers Weekly What sets this book apart from other small exhibition catalogues of O’Keeffe’s work is the set of side-by-side comparisons of 20 paintings with recent, commissioned, full-color photos of their actual sites, which pinpoint the exact perspective of the paintings. . All rights reserved. Lynes (Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne) is curator of Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and director of the research center there. There are 66 lush color plates in all, and 11 b&w reproductions, mostly of work from the 1930s.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsev
Lesley Poling-Kempes furnishes a fascinating chronicle of O'Keeffe's years in the region as well as a useful explanation of the geological forces that produced the intense colors and dramatic shapes of the landscapes O'Keeffe painted.EXHIBIT SCHEDULE: ? Georgia O'Keeffe MuseumSanta Fe, New MexicoJune 11-September 12, 2004 Columbus Museum of ArtColumbus, OhioOctober 1, 2004-January 16, 2005 Albright-Knox Art GalleryBuffalo, New YorkJanuary 28-May 08, 2005. It reproduces the exhibition's 50 paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and organizer of the exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to the places that inspired her. When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. The book examines the magnificence of O'Keeffe's work through essays by three noted authors. In 1929, she began spend