The About Of The Mind

Based on the analyses of the paintings created by Georgia O’Keeffe, anAmerican female artist in20thcentury, in her lifetime, and the emotion andsymbolic factors that are implied in O’Keeffe’s works, I will dig into theessentials which shaped her painting style.By discussing O’Keeffe’s educational experience in her early lifetime, theinfluences of other artists’ theories on O’Keeffe’s painting style will beaddressed firstly. By exploring O’Keeffe’s paintings with different subjectmatters, composition, color and questioning whether some special implicationscan be drawn out from certain works of hers, the emotional messages conveyedwithin her works will be analyzed afterwards. By examining the process ofturning the unknown to the known and the process of personalizing the nature,the combination of O’Keeffe’s personal feelings and the world has been wellreflected in her paintings. As one of the most significant American female artistsin the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe has challenged the contemporaryvisual art and made far-reaching influences on the artists of later generations.