Nice bio but with a couple problems. Number 1: If she 'found' New Mexico in 1929 then she had yet to experience any deprivation caused by the Depression as the stock market crash came toward the end of 1929 and, more importantly, the effects was not felt by the general population until 1931. Number 6: despite her denial of the sexual symbology of her many of her celebrated works, it clearly does so. As an owner of 2 O'Keefe's and being a doctor, I know what the female anatomy looks like and that O'Keefe's work is illustrating the female anatomy. Now, I'll grant that she may have denied it as she may not have been aware of it or was trying to dissociate herself from that part of her life. In the case that she truly was not aware of it, the symbology was a subconscious expression. Instead of other viewers projecting themselves onto her work, it was O'Keefe who was projecting herself, consciously or unconsciously, into her work (almost every artist does the same thing to a degree).
Nice bio but with a couple problems. Number 1: If she 'found' New Mexico in 1929 then she had yet to experience any deprivation caused by the Depression as the stock market crash came toward the end of 1929 and, more importantly, the effects was not felt by the general population until 1931. Number 6: despite her denial of the sexual symbology of her many of her celebrated works, it clearly does so. As an owner of 2 O'Keefe's and being a doctor, I know what the female anatomy looks like and that O'Keefe's work is illustrating the female anatomy. Now, I'll grant that she may have denied it as she may not have been aware of it or was trying to dissociate herself from that part of her life. In the case that she truly was not aware of it, the symbology was a subconscious expression. Instead of other viewers projecting themselves onto her work, it was O'Keefe who was projecting herself, consciously or unconsciously, into her work (almost every artist does the same thing to a degree).