OKeeffian Petals Triptych Print Number 2 Black Rose Vision Quest

by Aberjhani

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OKeeffian Petals Triptych Print Number 2 Black Rose Vision Quest

Artist

Aberjhani

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Digital Art - Authentic Silk-featherbrush Artstyle Print

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“One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it—” O’keeffe

“O’Keeffian Petals” is a Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle triptych presented in tribute to the artistic legacy of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986). Each of the prints are complete works which can be hung either together or separately. The triptych consists of the following prints:

1. O’Keeffian Petals Triptych Print Number 1: Desert Rose Epiphany
2. O’Keeffian Petals Triptych Print Number 2: Black Rose Vision Quest
3. O’Keeffian Petals Triptych Print Number 3: Blossoming Gold

BLACK ROSE VISION QUEST:

The “Black Rose Vision Quest” print is an homage to O’Keeffe’s move from the glamor of life as a celebrated artist in “roaring 1920s” New York City to that of a committed creative working in the United States’ southwest. The top layer of this print is of delicate blossoms rendered in an almost ethereal polychromatic style signifying the meditative comfort the artist experienced in her desert environment. These contrast with the darker Earth-tone reds, yellows, oranges, greens, blues, and shadows of the middle layers and bottom right quadrant forming plateaus closer in shades and colors to those found in the desert. Positioned in the lower left quadrant is a black rose of honor and distinction.

NOTES ON O’KEEFFE: Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most iconic artists in American art history. She is often credited with being the “Mother of Modernism,” a period of artistic advancements which got underway in the early 1900s and along with the Harlem Renaissance began reaching full expressiveness in the 1920s and 1930s. Married for a time to celebrated photographer Alfred Stieglitz, O’Keeffe also enjoyed a close friendship with Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer.

O’Keeffe won both acclaim and notoriety for her detailed depictions of flowers focused on the fluidity of their shapes and strong appeal of their colors. They became a motif from which she repeatedly drew inspiration and produced masterpieces of visual art as well as aesthetic theories on the balance between abstract painting and figuration. Prior to gaining fame as an artist in New York City in the 1920s, she taught and lived in Texas. In 1929, she began traveling annually from New York to New Mexico, where she settled in 1949. The colorful landscape of the American southwest became something like a visual metaphor symbolizing her interpretation of aspects of the American character.

Aberjhani
https://www.author-poet-aberjhani.info
Harlem Renaissance Centennial 2020
Creator of Authentic Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle
Co-Author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

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December 10th, 2020

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