The Life of the Characters in Georgia O 'Keeffe's Works

In college, Ou Jifu chose art institute of chicago. Two years later, she moved to new york City and joined the Art Students' Union. She studied under the painter william merritt chase. His untitled oil painting won the William Marit Chase Award from the Art Student Union. This untitled picture depicts a dead rabbit and a copper pot. This award will also send Ou Jifu to Lake George in upstate New York to attend the summer school of the Art Student Union. 1908, when Ou Jifu went to new york 29 1 gallery to watch the watercolor painting exhibition of sculptor Rodin, she met her future husband, namely gallery owner and photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

1908, Ou Jifu returned to Chicago as an illustrator. 19 10, she got measles and went home to rest in Virginia. During these two years, she realized that she didn't have the consciousness of making a living by painting, and she couldn't break away from the framework of academic training, so she almost stopped painting.

Until 19 12, Ou Jifu attended the summer course of the University of Virginia and was inspired by his teacher, Aaron Bementer. He introduced the thought of Arthur Wesley Dao, an educator in Ou Jifu at that time: artists should make good use of lines, colors, faces and shapes to interpret their understanding and feelings. Ou Jifu was deeply attracted and began to try to incorporate his own style into it.

From 19 12 to 19 14, Ou Jifu taught at Amerigo public high school in Texas, and worked as a teaching assistant for Beaumont in the summer until 19 16. During this period, she also studied in new york Teachers College (Columbia University) and got to know Arthur Wesley Dow, who inspired her. It was the summer of 19 14.

On 19 15, Ou Jifu transferred to teach at Columbia College in South Carolina. 19 16, in order to get a professorship at west Texas state university, she briefly returned to new york to continue her unfinished normal university course. This year can be said to be a crucial period for Ou Jifu to truly find his own painting style. When she was in South Carolina a year ago, she tried to draw a series of abstract themes in charcoal and sent them to new york's friend Anita Pulitzer to share. Anita liked this series of paintings very much, so she showed them to Grace, the artist of Gallery 29 1. He discovered Ou Jifu's talent for painting and decided to show this series of paintings. 19 16 in may, 10 Ou Jifu charcoal painting was officially exhibited in 29 1 gallery as part of the group exhibition (it is said that Grace did not inform Ou Jifu at that time. 19 17 in April and August, Steve Grice held two solo exhibitions for Ou Jifu due to the good evaluation of the first exhibition.

After teaching for several years, Ou Jifu is in poor health. She applied for a long vacation, moved to San Antonio, Texas, where the climate was warm, and began to write to Stiglitz. Through writing, they gradually developed feelings, so in May of 19 18, Ou Jifu accepted Stiglitz's invitation. In June of 65438, Steve Grice let Ou Jifu live in his niece's personal apartment, and two months later they fell in love. So Steve gliese left his wife, imran oppenheim, and began to live with Ou Jifu. They spent winter and spring in new york. In summer and autumn, he returned to Steve Grice's hometown, Lake George. Ou Jifu drew many sketches of George Lake. Through Steve Glise's experience in running art galleries, he also sold many works at quite good prices. At first, these works were watercolors or sketches, and later, most of them were oil paintings, and the bigger the paintings, the richer the themes. There are even some high-rise buildings and night scenes in Manhattan. The colors, lines and surfaces all show Ou Jifu's strong personal style.

During the period from 19 18 to 1924, Ou Jifu also made many friends of Steve Grice in new york, such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dover, marsden Hartley, john marin and Paul Transly. These friends are all important American modernist painters and photographers, and their modernist painting ideas and styles have also influenced Ou Jifu.

As a famous photographer, Steve Glise left her figure with a camera when Ou Jifu held her solo exhibition in his gallery for the first time in 19 17. After they lived together, they took many photos of her. 192 1 In February, Steve Grice held a photography exhibition. There are 45 works on display, most of which are Ou Jifu himself, and even a few of them are nude. This exhibition inevitably makes Ou Jifu the focus of everyone's talk.

1924, Steve Grice divorced his wife and married Ou Jifu. This year, she started the most famous series of flowers, the large-scale microscopic pictures of flowers, which constitute a mysterious and vital composition with subtle curves and gradual colors. When this series of paintings was exhibited in 1925, Ou Jifu was pushed to the first peak of his painting career. One of them, Yu Hai, was sold for $25,000, which was the highest price of paintings by living artists at that time. It also established her position as an American painter in the1920s. New Mexico is very important to Ou Jifu's middle age and later life. After Ou Jifu and Rebecca Straddle visited Santa Fe and Taos in this state on 1929, she was deeply attracted by the scenery, colors and rocks there. Since then, she has traveled to the United States from 1929 to 1949 (the first time in Ou Jifu) every year. From 65438 to 0930, she stayed in this state all summer, collecting animal bones and rocks in the desert, drawing sketches, and taking these materials back to new york for painting. From the end of 1932 to the beginning of 1933, Ou Jifu was seriously ill. After that, I went to Bermuda in the Caribbean to recuperate, and I didn't start painting again until June 1934. 1in the summer of 934, when she visited New Mexico again, she came across the ghost ranch, where she painted quite a few works of canyons, deserts and wilderness.

During the years when Ou Jifu frequently traveled back and forth between New Mexico and new york City, her reputation grew bigger and bigger. In new york, she accepted several honorary awards, including two retrospective exhibitions of one woman, art institute of chicago's first honorary degree, and the first solo exhibition of female painters held by new york Museum of Modern Art 1946. 1938 honorary degree of William and Mary College, 1940 album printing sponsorship of Whitney Museum, etc.

/kloc-in 0/946, Steve Grice died, and for the next three years, Ou Jifu stayed in new york City, with almost no paintings except handling Steve Grice's legacy. 1949, she officially moved to New Mexico and began to paint alone in the desert. Throughout the 1950 s, Ou Jifu painted many architectural landscape themes, such as mud brick houses, desert nights, dusk, and smaller imagery works. The staircase to the moon (1958) is one of the representative works. From 1958 to 1960, Ou Jifu also began to travel abroad and incorporated the scenery in his travels into his paintings. For example, 1962 and 1963' s "Above the Clouds" series are the inspiration when flying. 1962, Ou Jifu was officially listed as one of the 50 outstanding members of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. It was also during this period that 75-year-old Ou Jifu's eyesight began to decline. After diagnosis, she was found to have macular degeneration, which gradually lost her central vision and color vision. Ou Jifu, who settled in the ghost ranch, turned to create three-dimensional sculptures and actively treated his eye diseases. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/973, Juan Hamilton, a young ceramist, went to the ghost ranch to look for a job. Ou Jifu hired him to help with the housework, and they soon became close partners.

In addition to creating ceramics, Ou Jifu also began to write his own life as a memoir. The memoirs of Georgia O'Keefe were published in 1976. Perry Miller Adato's documentary of the same name was completed on 1977 and broadcast on national television. From 65438 to 0972, Ou Jifu finished his last oil painting "Beyond" by himself. From then on to 1978, charcoal pen and watercolor painting were mainly used. From 1978 to 1984, most of them are graphite paintings.

From 65438 to 0984, Ou Jifu moved out of the ghost ranch and moved to the bigger city of Santa Fe in order to get better medical services. 1on March 6, 986, she died in St. Vincent's Hospital at the age of 98. The ashes are scattered on Piedenon Mountain, where she painted many times before her death, from which she can see her ghost ranch. After Ou Jifu's death, she was included in the national list of outstanding women. Yi was awarded 10 honorary degrees before her death, and many books related to her were published one after another. The US Postal Service also printed her red poppy as a stamp on 1927. Because Ou Jifu changed his will in 1980, he left the ghost farm and other legacy to Hamilton, which was considered quite unfair by his family. 1986, Ou Jifu's family and Hamilton went to court over the issue of inheritance. The dispute over the inheritance was finally settled out of court, and the two sides agreed to set up a non-profit foundation to take care of and exhibit Ou Jifu's works.

1997, Ou Jifu Museum was established in Santa Fe. The Foundation also officially transferred to the museum to exhibit her photography, paintings and archives. Today, Ou Jifu's works are mainly collected in the following museums, in addition to Ou Jifu Museum, Metropolitan Museum, art institute of chicago, Boston Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art and National Gallery of America.

1993, R. Crosby Kemper Jr, a banker in Kansas, spent $5.5 million to buy 28 watercolor paintings from Gerald Peters, an art dealer. Peters claimed that these paintings were Ou Jifu's paintings from 19 16 to 19 18. These paintings were not included in the list of works of Ou Jifu Museum, but they were found to be fake (news). In 200 1 year, the dealer Peters returned $5.5 million to Kempers.

1999, Barbara, curator of the Ou Jifu Museum, and Emily of the Research Center published a catalogue of 2,029 works. * * There are two volumes, which completely list the dates and details of Ou Jifu's works from 190 1 to 1984.