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Georgia O'Keefe Goal: Students will study the characteristics
of Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings and apply these characteristics
to tissue paper flower "paintings" of their own. PRODUCTION Objective: Students will create flower tissue paper paintings, incorporating characteristics of O'Keeffe's flower paintings, such as filling the page, and incorporating concepts of value, hue, shade, and perspective. Teacher Materials: examples of O'Keeffe's flower paintings, completed example of project Student Materials: 9" x 12" white construction paper, scissors, Mod Podge glue in styrofoam meat trays, foam brushes, tissue paper, flowers (optional) Activity: After showing examples of Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings and discussing elements/principles of art characteristic of them, give each student a piece of 9" x 12" white construction paper and a foam brush. Each table should have one or two styrofoam meat trays containing Mod Podge glue and a variety of tissue paper. If using flowers, place one at each table for students to observe and get ideas from. The tissue paper should be cut into shapes and glued onto the paper to create large flowers. When the works are completed, the entire paper should be filled. Display the finished products in the hallway (or wherever there is room) and discuss as a class what all of the works have in common. EVALUATION HISTORY From 1912 to 1917, O'Keeffe taught art at various colleges and universities. In April of 1916, Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer and art gallery owner, exhibited 10 of O'Keeffe's drawings... O'Keeffe learned about the exhibit through an acquaintance. She confronted Stieglitz, but eventually conceded to letting them hang. Her first solo exhibition took place a year later in his gallery. In 1923, Stieglitz exhibited 100 of O'Keeffe's paintings, and she married him the following year. It was during the long winter months in New York that O'Keeffe first began to paint very large flowers, which are what she is most well-known for today. She completed her first enormous flower painting in 1924, and completed a total of over 200 flower paintings in her lifetime. The giant flower paintings were first exhibited in 1925. O'Keeffe made her first visit to New Mexico in the summer of 1929. She loved New Mexico, and visited every summer until she moved there in 1949 after Stieglitz's death. It was in 1971 that O'Keeffe first became aware that she was losing her eyesight. At the age of 84 she was gradually losing her central vision, an irreversible degenerative eye condition. She stopped painting in 1972, but remained artistically inspired until her death in 1986 at the age of 98. During her lifetime, O'Keeffe was honored with many awards. She was the recipient of the Gold Medal of Painting from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1970. In 1977 President Gerald Ford presented her with the nation's highest civilian honor, the United States Medal of Freedom. President Ronald Reagan presented her with the National Medal of Arts in 1985. REFERENCES |