Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. O'Keeffe was a
legend beginning in the 1920s, known as much for her independent spirit
and female role model as for her dramatic and innovative works of art.
Nancy and Jules Heller said, "The most remarkable thing about O'Keeffe was
the
audacity and
uniqueness of her
early work." At that time, even in Europe, there were few artists
exploring abstraction. Even though her works may show elements of
different modernist movements, such as Surrealism and Precisionism, her
work is uniquely her own style. She received unprecedented acceptance as a
woman artist from the fine art world due to her powerful graphic images
and within a decade of moving to New York City, she was the highest-paid
American woman artist. She was known for a distinctive style in all
aspects of her life. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers,
New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called
the
"Mother of American Modernism".
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