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Post by snwhitten on Aug 30, 2015 15:36:03 GMT
Prior to reading, all I thought of Georgia O'Keeffe was that she painted beautiful flowers during her time. Simplistic at best, my original opinion minimally scratched the surface of her as a whole. Upon reading Joan Didion's essay about Miss O'Keeffe I discovered a new side of her. I was intruiged by Didion's essay and became very pleased to know about this famous artist and her outlook on life. Inspiring to most including myself I enjoyed reading in particular how it was said that the city men of society at the time labeled her flowers with their own associations of flowers. This was done apparently in an incorrectly because Miss O'Keeffe and the city men associated different things with her flowers. Who knew that something as common as a flower could be seen as so many different things based on the beholder? I surely had not thought of that before. Furthermore, in response to the quotation, "...one of her fellow students advised her that, since he would be a great painter and should would end up teaching painting in a girls' school, any work of hers was less important than modeling for him." I was appalled. I cannot imagine someone telling me such rude assertion with such entitlement simply because he was a pompous male. Georgia O'Keeffe was told to express herself in certain ways, those ways that were deemed adequate by society were not adequate in by her. Georgia's quaint upbringing on the Wisconsin prairie with the stories of cowboys shaped her life and her art. Her perseverance through so many obstacles has without a doubt inspired me. In conclusion, among many of the female rights activists I now will undoubtedly include Georgia O'Keeffe. She possessed her own unique approach to the cause. Joan Didion's essay was eye-opening to myself and for many others I can believe. The author vividly projected Miss O'Keeffe from her direct attitude and as well as her different perspective on art as a whole. Although I was not highly impressed with the length of this essay due to my hopes of it being longer I was pleased to learn more about what I did not know.
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Post by makayla on Aug 30, 2015 15:46:35 GMT
Georgia O'Keeffe was a hard straight forward woman with a mind of her and free soul who did not care about anyone's opinions but her own. She was free spirited and made paintings and drawings that were inspirational to herself and others might not understand. Joan Didion wrote this to teach others that they should not care about anyone else's opinions ever. The secret to a happy life is a free life and the only way to get that is to live by th opinions of yourself and only yourself. Didion went to a Chicago art museum with her daughter where they saw O'keeffes work. Didions daughters eyes were opened. She realized the importance of ones feelings was expressed through art. Georgia O'Keeffe painted what she wanted not worrying about what anyone else thought it said. I believe Didion admired O'Keeffe for her free outlook on life and wanted everyone else who was reading this to realize that. She wanted everyone to realize not to care about others bad opinions on them. Joan Didion wanted people to see that not worrying about others gave you a happier life and Georgia O'Keeffe was a true prime example of that.
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Post by Josh Hedum on Sept 1, 2015 0:28:36 GMT
Write your responses to the essay "Georgia O'Keeffe" by responding to this thread. "Style is Character" letting that phrase sink in a bit. it made me think about how much society really depends on this very phrase. Whether the style is the way somebody does something or the way someone dresses, others will view you on your style. Joan Didion describes Georgia O'keefe as a person who is very hard woman, who would be otherwise know as mean, but it wasn't mean it was more of a presistance and individualism. She was well known for her paintings that were often depicted differently by people just because of the way they were painted, like every brush and stroke gave you a view into ones character."Painting was the painter as the poem is the poet" O'keefe gave her viewers a feeling that each painting was a small poem that she made to me unraveled and depicted differently on how one viewed them. The main point of her paintings was to express your youself without being held down by other peoples standards that you try to appease. Didion wrote of how O'keefe did this alot to express herself, she painted things, not to appease critics who said something was too bright, in fact she took that and made her painting brighter just to prove a point. That very point is why her persistance and poety for painting made them so amazing and different from other painters.
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Post by bobby on Sept 1, 2015 2:25:16 GMT
"Georgia O'Keefe" begins with Joan Didion visiting the Art Institute in Chicago with her daughter. admiring the paintings done by Georgia O'Keefe herself this essay begins to tell the story of how Georgia was her own kind of paiter. People tried to tel her what she could and couldn't paint or how to paint soemting but she had her own way. When O'Keefe painted it was different cmpared to everyone elses, she had her own style and she did not care what anyone said about it. Georgia O'Keefe was not threatened by anyone elses opinio because they did not matter to her, she painted things that she enjoyed, not things other people neccesarily would have. When O'Keefe was painting her cow head she took notice in the talk of "writing the great American novel-the great American play-the great American poetry" so she thought that if she made it an "American painting" ny making it red,white and blue it would stand out more to those people, and it did. What she did was added something veryone would notice but in her own way. She knew by adding the colors of the flag it was going to spark an interest from most people.
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Post by kass on Sept 1, 2015 3:34:07 GMT
"Georgia O'Keeffe", by Joan Didion speaks to all women and actually men too. Georgia O'Keefe did not want to be normal or to fit in, she aspired to be different. In the 1900's being "different" was not something you'd see often. Most women acted as how women were "supposed" to be and didn't stray far from it. I believe Joan Didion admired how Georgia liked to be different and that is why she chose to write about her. Georgia had confidence like no other women and that stood out to Didions, Georgia did as she pleased and did not care about other's opinions. A few men once told Georgia that she could not paint New York, so Georgia went and painted New York. She was unlike the other girls who painted lovely things such as flowers, she painted what she wanted and was very passionate about her work. Georgia did not want you to look at her picture on the front of a magazine, she wanted you to look at her work because all the fame didn't matter to her. She did what she loved and if people enjoyed it, she was happy. Georgia was once asked what the of artist she was, she was left with no answer because she did not know what kind of artist she was. She really wasn't any "type" and did not want to be. She was her own kind of artist and wanted it to stay that way. Georgia O;Keefe wanted to be herself, and she was exactly just that. She embraced her work and did not allow anyone to change her. I love how confident she is and it is very inspiring. It encourages me to be more confident with anything i do, i also am into drawing and painting and I have ad people tell me something is not that good, and then later on have had people tell me how much they love them. I didn't let the people that didn't like them to get to me because I respect everyones opinion and understand that not everything appeals to everyone.
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Post by jaswest on Sept 1, 2015 3:58:31 GMT
“It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” This statement by Georgia O’Keeffe is by far my favorite out of everything written in this essay. Through one simple, to the point sentence, one can see Georgia O’Keeffe’s attitude and the way she viewed her art. Art is not just something one throws together, it is an extension of one’s self. Some painters even say a piece of their soul goes into every one of their works of art. The author, Joan Didion, reflects on a memory in which her daughter made the connection that, “Style is character”. When you look at a piece of art, you are seeing the painter or sculptor as well. If you pay close attention to the colors and strokes of paint, the artist’s emotions toward that certain piece, or their current situation in life, can be seen. While reading this story, I found that I admired O’Keeffe not only for her art, which I have seen many times in my art class, but also but her aggressive and “hard” attitude. “I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I see what you think and see- and I don’t.” She wanted to be respected by the men who viewed her art and did not take their criticism of her work lightly. Georgia O’Keeffe continuously painted to prove others wrong. O’Keeffe wanted those who viewed her work to see the muse of a painting through her eyes instead of trying to compare her work to that of others. As I stated before, I have seen her work countless times in art class. I have also viewed “Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue”. Now I understand her reasoning for making that piece patriotic. In a way, she was showing off her rebellious nature, trying to get the attention of the men in the art world. It is quite ironic that her most famous painting is one in which she deliberately made for the intent of the people who critiqued her, not in her own style in which she loved.
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Post by Cat Moulton on Sept 24, 2015 0:02:41 GMT
Nearly one month down and I'm finally retrying this after the traumatizing deletion of my last entry.
I'm a big fan of essay books, my favorite book of all time is actually a collection of essays (My Heart is an Idiot by Davy Rothbart, there's an entire chapter about peeing in bottles. I highly recommend it.) So from the start I was pretty enthusiastic about this. "Georgia O'Keefe" was, in my opinion, one of the best essays in this book. As someone who loves art and any kind of female empowerment, this was perfect for me. Joan Didlion was great at honoring Georgia O'Keefe in a very personal way. She made it easy to relate to and understand O'Keefe, and created someone beyond the painting. A lot of people don't usually do that, it's typically staring at a painting of a red hill nailed up on a white wall, and sometimes the questions "What was the artist thinking? What were the feeling?" and such will come up if you're really that interested, but I fear people never truly see beyond the canvas. Of course, they know that there was someone spending hours painting that red hill, but the story is often lost along the way. Didlion brought the story back, quoting O'Keefe about her painting of a red hill; "I don't always paint flower's. A flower touches almost everyone's heart. A red hill doesn't touch everyone's heart." That alone struck me, because usually popularity comes will following whats in, whether you believe it or not, it's true. But part of my attraction to O'Keefes' style was how she hardly cared what people wanted to see. She fought against her naysayers and painted what she liked, and what they said she couldn't. She had gumption, something that was lacking in a lot of people in her time. Sadly, many women didn't defy social norms in fear of social stigmatization. Joan Didlion had taken her daughter to the Chicago Art Institute to view Georgia O'Keefes paintings, and her daughter had said "I have to talk to her." That sort of childlike wonder is what keeps art alive. It's the only way to see art in a pure, innocent form. There's no longer a discussion of brushstrokes or technique, it's simple. Sometimes a hill is only a hill, but it could be so much more.
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