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At the beginning of the 20th century, being a teacher was the sole approach a woman could have into the art world in the United States. Stieglitz was a famous photographer, and a renowned advocate for the Modernist movement in the arts. In New York City, Stieglitz owned Gallery , acknowledged for showing the pieces of these painters. Incidentally, she was the first American painter featured at this place. During a great part of her life, she was mentored and influenced by Stieglitz.
His attention extended throughout all her career; he organized 22 solo exhibitions and several group installations. She mastered the use of line and composition to create abstract pieces full of simplicity, such as Drawing XIII An important part of her life as an artist was spent in New Mexico. There, she felt keen to portray deserts, mountains, and also skulls of animals that represented for her an eternal beauty of the desert.
For her, the true image of America went far beyond the limits of big cities. During the last decades of her life, the artist was working on challenging projects like the foot long canvas of Sky Above Clouds series — She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism". In , O'Keeffe began her serious formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York , but she felt constrained by her lessons that focused on recreating or copying what was in nature.
In , unable to fund further education, she worked for two years as a commercial illustrator, and then spent seven years between and teaching in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina. During that time, she studied art during the summers between and and was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who espoused created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them.
This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art, as seen in the beginning stages of her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in that led to total abstraction.
Alfred Stieglitz , an art dealer and photographer, held an exhibit of her works in Over the next couple of years, she taught and continued her studies at the Teachers College, Columbia University in and She moved to New York in at Stieglitz's request and began working seriously as an artist. They developed a professional relationship—he promoted and exhibited her works—and a personal relationship that led to their marriage in O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers, such as the Red Canna paintings, that many found to represent women's genitalia, although O'Keeffe consistently denied that intention.
The reputation of the portrayal of women's sexuality was also fueled by explicit and sensuous photographs that Stieglitz had taken and exhibited of O'Keeffe. Her father was of Irish descent.
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