Description
“Here’s to strong women – may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. ”
A new series of designs depicting portraits of “Women Who Made History”
Strong women. Independent women. Resilient women.
Next in this series is Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist who painted nature in a way that showed how it made her feel. She played an important part in the development of modern art becoming the first female artist to gain respect in New York’s art world in the 1920s. She is best known for her paintings of flowers and desert landscapes. A pioneer in the recognition of female creativity, she conquered the male domain of art to become one of the most recognised artists of her time. She was the first female artist to be honoured with a retrospective at New York’s MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). Her floral still life Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), fetched US$44.5 million at Sotheby’s in New York in 2014 – the most expensive painting by a female artist to be sold at auction to date.
This design is a stylised portrait with strong geometric elements with a nod to the artwork of Modigliani and Leger, maybe even Picasso but with the emphasis on pride and celebration of “Women Who Made History”.
