Georgia OKeeffe

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Georgia OKeeffe

• A look at our OKeeffe inspired
  compositions!!!!!!!!

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Her Life

• Georgia OKeeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887.
• She was an important American artist.
• OKeeffe liked to paint close up sections of
  flowers.
• She married another important artist name Alfred
  Stieglitz who was a photographer.

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Her life continued

• OKeeffes paintings of flowers are considered to
  be abstract.
• She moved to the Southwest where she also painted
  dead animal bones.
• Georgia OKeeffe was one of the first women in
  America to become accepted as an artist.
• She died in March 1986 at the age of 98.

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Two examples of her work.
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We used the view finder technique to abstract a
flower for our drawings.
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We learned how to blend cray-pas to get
different color values.
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Here are our OKeeffe inspiredflowers!
AWESOME!!!
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More AWESOME examples of our work!!!!!!
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Produced byLeonora Scanlan, TeAna
Morganfield, Gherri Dinee Weekes, and Menny
ZhuWaldo Pafford ElementaryHinesville, Georgia
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References

• www. Posters.com
• Scholastic Art magazine, February 1998
• Hunter, Shaun. Visual Performing Artists (1999
  )pgs.30,33,34
• Carol Ann Hough, Art Teacher, WPE
• Georgia OKeeffe by Robyn Montana Turner
• Roxanne Lee, WPE Media Specialist