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Monday, January 18, 2010

RUBY TUESDAY - WHAT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE PAINTER SAW

 My posting of this photograph,The Red Daisy, for RUBY TUESDAY, is inspired by fellow blogger, The Aware Writer, whose 'Ode to a Red Flower' was posted on Monday Musings:    http://awarewriter.wordpress.com/

John McDevitt's musings and experiments with the photographic medium produced images that reminded me of Georgia O'Keeffe's approach to painting flowers.   In short, creating images that are about the flower itself, and the photographer's ability to reveal a transformative inner dimension that the transient eye doesn't register.  Today, photographers can go out on a limb with their imaginations and tools, just as O'keeffe decided to do with painting a little flower.    Notably, McDevitt's experiments with an 'Ode to a Red Flower' became as abstract as some of O'Keeffe's flower paintings.


                                               The Red Gerber Daisy by Margaret Gosden

   When O'Keeffe started painting flowers she wanted to paint what she SAW, not what people usually associated with flowers - the touching, the smelling, the gifting, the arranging.   She said, "Still, in a way, nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small, we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time".

  She thought that if she painted a flower, small, no one would see what she sees, so she decided to paint big.  "I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers".




  This is O'keeffe's painting of a Red Poppy, 1927. Oil on canvas 7 x 9 taken from Georgia O'keeffe, A Studio Book, published by The Viking Press, New York (1976)

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10 comments:

  1. We visited the Georgia O'Keeffe museum in Santa Fe and you are certainly correct. All of her flowers were very large and very colorful.

    Love what you did here. So nice to get more then just a pretty picture. Add the tidbits on O'Keeffe gives us an education along with the eye candy.

    Nice Touch

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  2. I enjoyed this post!! I love art.

    My Ruby Tuesday is HERE. Do come join me if you can find time today.

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  3. Very late at night (for me) but I just want to tell you that I prefer your photograph to the painting! Is that sacrilege? The light is so vivid on your petals.And so to bed.

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  4. Outstanding Ruby Tuesday subjects. Well done.

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  5. Georgia O'Keefe was amazing. "I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see" - yes, an incredible task, and she succeeded (somewhat).

    Love your beautiful take on the simple daisy.

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  6. red daisy petals
    like a thousand splendid suns
    blazing through the sky


    Torrent of poinsettias!

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  7. Your photo is a nice edition of the flower. Makes you appreciate it - just as O'Keefe would have wished.

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  8. Gorgeous flowers.

    Art Explorations of my kids is my entry for Ruby Tuesday!

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  9. Very lovely flower. Can't wait to see more flowers and different colors this spring and summer. Thanks for sharing!

    RT:Strawberries

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  10. I like both your photo and the painting. In fact, the photo resembles a painting - quite lovely.

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