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more about #georgiaokeeffe more comments → RosePetalPlace: I MUST go see this show -- I know everyone thinks her flower paintings are pretty, but her earlier, abstract works are my favorites. It's cool that so... more » PaintedTrollop: Of course art critics are men - which explains a great deal. Men - who have designed every phallic monument, planes, jets - so many things that are a ... more » morninggloria: So basically, Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings were essentially Megan Fox's quote about men fearing "a powerful vagina", but prettier? more » QuicheLorraine: 1) So if Georgia O'Keefe was wildly successful, and all these people had and have lovely, richly colored flower-vaginas hanging on their walls and in ... more » JLady: This piece looks a lot like the cover art of the last Weakerthans album. I'm not suggesting anything, but they are eerily similar. more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Fuck, if she was good enough for Claudia Kishi... (actually, in all seriousness, that is how I first found out about O'Keeffe as a kid. So thanks, An... more » muddgirl: I saw a great O'Keefe exhibit last time I was in Santa Fe, and there's nothing "soft" or "easy listening" about any of her work, even the flower and d... more » Ultraprison!: I love her, and I love this painting - it (or a version of it) is at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of my favorite places in the world. more » LaComtesse: I've never been a fan of O'Keeffe's work, but here popular oeuvre is so limited. So I'll be interested to see this and decide DEFINITIVELY whether or ... more » lurkerbynature: Soft? Emotional? What mythical O'Keeffe paintings are these? They haven't seen the same paintings I have. Did they just look for all the epithets ... more » Ms. Take: i love her. fuck the haters. i think she's fantastic. i've been to a couple of different exhibits of her work and i am never disappointed. also, th... more » morninggloria: Isn't the correct terminology "meat curtains"? As in, Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings were too meat curtain-centric. At least that's what I learned at ... more » EkaterinaBallerina: I'll never forget seeing a Georgia O'Keefe, one of my favorite painters, show at a museum and having to hear two older (translation: old enough to kno... more » hydrogen_jukebox: They say labia-centric like it's a bad thing. more » awinoforever: i love o'keeffe's abstract work and i think it's so sad that it is overshadowed by her more postcard friendly fare. also - the nudie pics stieglitz to... more » -
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"What Was Really At Stake Was Power"
From the NYT review: "O'Keeffe wanted the power to include sexuality in her art's expressive range, without necessarily making it the subject. Stieglitz wanted the power to define her art purely in terms of feminine sexuality." [NYT] -
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New Exhibit Seeks To Shake O'Keeffe's Labia-Centric Label
"Kitschy," "a tourist-brochure artist," "labia-centric" and "baby-crazy" are just some of the insults that have been thrown at artist Georgia O'Keeffe. But a new exhibit at the Whitney seeks to change all that. More »
