Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of Nov. 15th
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It is the 319th day of the year, leaving 46 days remaining in 2022.
She told her stories on canvas, painting realistic natural images so detailed that they often resembled abstract, even surrealistic, drawings. She painted flowers and landscapes, enhancing her works with subtle shades of color, shape, and size.
Her landscapes includes drawings of the skyscrapers in New York in the 1920s, She later moved on to more natural settings, such as the images she saw from a summer home in New York's Lake George area, and later from her beloved deserts of New Mexico. After extended visits to New Mexico over the years, she eventually settled there permanently.
Born in Wisconsin, O'Keefe went to school in Chicago before moving to New York, where she taught for a while. While taking a class in Virginia, she learned the modernist idea that paintings should be an artist's interpretation of what she saw, which included some Asian techniques.
She later became the prominent artist in this idea of abstract modernism. She enhanced it by making her drawing both realistic and abstract. One of her methods was to enlarge the detail of, say a flower, so that the immediate impression of the viewer was not to see the flower or the detail, but a larger, more abstract image.
In the 1930s and '40s, she was working and living part time in New Mexico, where, entranced by its stark landscape, she concentrated her work on its rugged mountains and the sun-beached animal bones that surrounded her.
O'Keefe died in 1986.
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