Georgia O'Keefe's life and artistic interests.

Georgia O'Keefe-Perspective and Vision Georgia O'Keefe, through the use of charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and oil, blends abstraction and representation to form what she refers to as "that memory or dream thing" (O'Keefe); she created works which were full of emotion and from which deeper meanings could be interpreted, such as sexuality and statements of femininity (which she subsequently denied). She worked on two different but inter-related subjects: Abstraction, and landscapes. She monumentalized her subjects: her …

…criticized her for using photographic effects in her paintings, and I cab appreciate her refusal of accepting the restriction of these effects to photography and continuing to incorporate them into her paintings. O'Keefe used magnification of her subjects to make visible to her audience this before unseen aspect of everyday objects, such as flowers; her use of Abstraction also caused her viewers to see the world on a new way, the way she sees it.