Georgia O'Keeffe's Art and Cultural Influence
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Rosin Paige Blauer 06/07/04 Period 4 Georgia O'Keeffe's Art and Cultural Influence Georgia O'Keeffe, a radical modern abstract painter, revolutionized and shaped American women's culture with disregard for the accepted "Freudian interpretations of her work" and "critical evaluations [of her artwork] that focused on her gender" (Merrill 34) and pioneered a new era of conceptual, modernist art. O'Keeffe's unique work is a product of her American Romanticist and Transcendentalist mindset - her love of nature, her imagination with her subjects and colors, her emotional spontaneity and her overall self-reliance and independence as an artist within the American tradition. Georgia O'Keeffe's work is a reflection of the Modernist era with a Romantic approach in the American experience; at a time when America was particularly influenced by the artistic direction of Europe, it moved toward totally abstract visual expression. The beginnings of the Modernist era in American resulted from the Events of World War I...

