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Originally Posted by thathottnurse
The point of perspective. That was her point. But you are the authority on things around here so have at it.
Artist don't often explain things literally. The fact that she made the statement is a statement in itself.
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i sure as hell am not an authority on things around eccie much less the world.
i just remember what i heard long ago and know how to do a web search for
<<"georgia o'keeffe" thoughts on erotic comments flowers>>
from just a few of the 34,500,000 page hits.
http://www.examiner.com/article/denv...f-sexy-flowers
esp. the quotes in "Georgia O’Keeffe ‘s notable quotes include a number of comments about flowers:"
http://kategale.wordpress.com/2009/0...rotic-flowers/
http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/59249/
esp. this quote...
<<Yet the same nude photos that made Stieglitz famous triggered a backlash against O’Keeffe. Forever after, her work was seen in purely sexual terms. “When people read erotic symbols into my paintings they’re really talking about their own affairs,” O’Keeffe said. Still, the sexualized misconceptions of her work devastated her. “I almost wept,” she wrote of one review in 1921.>>
and this where it seemed steiglitz wanted people to think of her art as erotic.
http://reprieve26.hubpages.com/hub/G...Success-Part-5
she was a trailblazer. and a lot of men and women in the american art scene in the 10s, 20s, and 30s didnt like her.
<<She was quoted as saying, “I would hear men saying, ‘she is pretty good for a woman,’ [or] ‘she paints like a man.’ That upset me” (Sawelson-Gorse 189). As a result, O’Keefe rebelled against being labeled a “woman artist” and would correct the people that called her this (Education).>>
and esp. the paragraph that starts w/ "The critic’s favorite target was Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings, which she began in 1924. "
and
<<The critics’ second favorite target was Georgia O’Keefe’s skull and bone paintings.>>
it's just another example of - no matter what you [generic you] do or mean, others will interpret it in the way THEY WANT, not necessarily what you want.
so, even tho we'll never know what she painted or intended to paint, apparently they are images of flowers, whatever we think of them.
and i like her paintings - flowers, cow skull, el pedernal, clouds, etc.
and back to this thread, i very much appreciate female genitalia, from the clitoris, to the labia, to the vagina.
thank you universe!!!
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