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Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings ...
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 ...
Born in Grenoble, Isère, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour first had drawing lessons with his father Théodore Fantin-Latour (1805-1875), who was a painter. [2] In 1850 he moved to Paris where he enrolled in the small Paris School of Drawing, where he studied with Louis-Alexandre Péron and Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, an innovative and non-traditional instructor who developed his own ...
Maria van Oosterwijck was born in 1630 in Nootdorp, a town located near Delft in South Holland, the Netherlands. [1] Her date of birth is generally listed as 20 August, [2] but some sources state that it was 27 August. Her father was a Dutch Reformed Church minister, as was her grandfather. [3]
Golding Constable's Flower Garden is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist John Constable, created in 1815. The work shows the flower garden belonging to Constable's father, Golding Constable, who lived in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt. The painting was donated by Ernest Cook, the grandson of the pioneering travel agent Thomas ...
For a calming style, a neutral palette (shades of white in the kitchen, from crisp linen to creamy latte) is a popular choice, as it creates visual space for colorful accessories, appliances, and ...
Khokhloma (also Hohloma, Russian: хохлома; Russian pronunciation: [xəxɫɐˈma]) or Khokhloma painting (хохломская роспись, hohlomskaya rospis) is a style of Russian art traditionally painted on wooden household items. It is known for its curved linear features depicting vivid small flowers, berries, grasses, and leaf ...
The Flower Girl (Italian - Fanciulla con fiori, Ragazza con fiori or La Fioraia'; Spanish - Muchacha con flores) is a c. 1665-1670 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in London. An X-ray of The Flower Seller found another image under the first layer, the lower half of a ...