Georgia O'Keeffe's Grey Hill Forms
Title: Georgia O'Keeffe's Grey Hill Forms
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 678 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Georgia O'Keeffe's Grey Hill Forms
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 678 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Applies to all Georgia O'Keeffe landscapes -
When Georgia O'Keeffe painted Grey Hill Forms in 1936, she was already at the height of a career that brought her both popular and critical acclaim. In 1929, she spent the summer in Taos, New Mexico and was overwhelmed by the unique visual experience the landscapes provided. She affectionately referred to the land of northern New Mexico as 'the faraway'... a place of stark beauty and infinite space. Her sources
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receive the universal acclaim which she did from both critics and contemporary art collectors from the very first. This enduring interest combined with accessible and easily sentimentalized work such as Grey Hill Forms has led to the trivialization of an important body of work created by a significant female artist. Throughout the over seventy years of her creative career, Georgia O'Keeffe continually made some of the most original contributions to the art of our time.