It is not always easy to sum up
all the things a painter can teach another.
When it come to Georgia O'Keefe it
is especially difficult.
She was an extremely independent woman.
Living separate from a husband many years older.
Living with a younger man for many
years gives us that perspective.
She saw things differently than most of her time.
She studied under the guise of many fine
artists and painters.
Was friends with great artists.
Saw flowers
leaves
skulls
and bones
in a close up view that made them
different, somehow.
She changed flowers to macro flowers
in a way that had never been done.
Her work is said to be
sensual
and open in nature.
It held no bounds of sticks and mortar.
It held no convention
that was the fiber of the community she sprang from.
Yet New Mexico embraced her.
Her black dresses
her hair in a tight bun
her fine bone structure
and classic looks
until her death at 98.
She held the fascination of many
and was called one of the
worlds most important female
painters throughout the 1990's.
