Hello Artists! Just a reminder that even though I am posting every day, you do not have to complete every activity. I would be so happy to see or hear that every week you completed a single daily doodle, prompt of the week, or art of the day activity. Don't forget you can email me pictures at [email protected] What do you see? What do you think is happening? What do you wonder?
From the AIC website: Painted in the summer of 1965, when Georgia O’Keeffe was 77 years old, this monumental work culminates a series inspired by the artist’s experiences as an airplane passenger during the 1950s. Working in Abiquiu, New Mexico, O’Keeffe began around 1963 to capture the endless expanses of clouds she had observed from airplane windows during trips all over the world. Beginning with a relatively realistic depiction of small white clouds on a three-by-four-foot canvas, she progressed to more stylized images of the motif on larger surfaces. O’Keeffe wrote:"I painted a painting eight feet high and twenty-four feet wide—it kept me working every minute from six a.m. till eight or nine at night as I had to be finished before it was cold—I worked in the garage and it had no heat—Such a size is of course ridiculous but I had it in my head as something I wanted to do for a couple of years." The special relationship between O’Keeffe and the Art Institute began in 1905, when she enrolled as a student at the School of the Art Institute.
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Laura Wittneben TufteK-5 art teacher at Whittier and Longfellow Elementary Archives
May 2020
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