The Research On The Graphic Arts Of The Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe one of the greatest American women artist in the20th century, who lived in the year of 1887------1986,a pioneer in American modern art, is the most acknowledged and highly praised pioneer in the modern women's painting history. And she has a great influence on the painters, especially the contemporary women painters. From the unique women perspective, using the expressing technique of metaphor, Georgia interpreted her unique painting language and perfectly reproduced her own acute feeling about "FEMAIE" as a woman herself. She broke through the fence of the male society and came out of the world in which male language was used as the main, and she built up a way of nature utterance belonging to women by studying the females. She guided the women's cognition of nature and the women themselves with her own paintings. Georgia was extremely successful, .She lived to the age of 99 and her creative the life span was as long as 80 years, leaving more than 2,000 paintings behind to the world. With her graphics art, she perfectly expresses her independent and intact personality became a mold of the successful woman artists in the art history with no doubt. Georgia is one of the few artists who can describe their women's special quality and acute sense of women briefly and gracefully. In this article, the author analyzes Georgia's graphic art in the three parts. In the First part, the author stresses on the research of how Georgia drawing style came into being and her way of painting. On the basis of this and the author's understanding of her, the author discusses the key period of the painting----the so-called "Sticglitz period". In the second part , the author analyzes and explains briefly Georgia's status in the art history on the basis of the perspective of doctrine of women. The third part is the most important part of this article. It can be divided in two small sections, too. They are:women's perspective and painting language. Through a deep analysis into two parts: 1.Women's visual angle; 2.Painting language. The author believes that Georgia 's paintings are "taking form the inside part of nature while being on the basis of nature". She can use her own unique art language and the visual media to express her acute inner feelings. The third part is a brief summary. The author believes that the unique art language and the unique drawing perspective are necessary to an excellent painter and they are closely related to each other. Not until a painter find his own visual angle and mastered a kind of statement language which agree with his own visual angle can their works express his own emotion , will , temperament and interest better .