Thursday, June 6, 2013
U10-VisArt-A2-Blog-O'Keefe's 'Red, White, and Blue'
In Georgia O'Keefe's 1931 painting Cow's Skull: Red, White,
and Blue, she gives a good sense of balance with the solid red side borders
which transition to the white to blue sections on each side of the cow's skull
that was sun bleached white. The skull itself with its eye sockets, horns, and
other parts of the skull seems to take you away from the fact that this is a
skull of a dead cow. It gives it an almost lifelike quality. The way the red, white,
and blue sections are designed using space, color, and shape it gives the skull
an almost 3-D quality which brings it off the canvas. These elements along with
the contrast created by her design, and her use of variety to give the skull
more life makes this painting very unique and intriguing to see.
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You do a really nice job describing how O'Keeffe uses certain elements of art and techniques to achieve particular responses from the viewer. That is a really interesting point how the skull itself, which is usually a symbol of death, seems almost lifelike instead of decayed. Do you have any thoughts about what the symbolism or meaning of the painting might be?
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