Georgia O'Keeffe By Myself Allen Charlton
2019 ж. 27 Қар.
690 326 Рет қаралды
On the brink of the Depression in 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe - America’s first great modernist painter - headed west. In the bright light of the New Mexico desert, she forged an independent life and found the solitude she needed for her truly original art.
The photographs taken of her by her older lover scandalised the public. Her flower forms were seen as a shocking and vibrant display of femininity, her bones and skulls as surreal and disturbing.
Now, 30 years after her death, to coincide with a major Tate Modern show, imagine… tells the story of Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most inspiring artists ever.
Totally enjoyable … a wonderfully robust, positive and fulfilled portrait.
Martin Hoyle, Financial Times
I went to Ghost Ranch in 2000 with a private tour guide. We approached the house as there was a pickup truck and a couple of cars so we thought maybe we could just ask to take pictures of the outside. As we approached, the head architect asked us who we were (I was on a solo trip around the US and Canada, from Australia) and told us they were doing some renovations to turn it into a community art space. And then to my amazement and overwhelming joy, he told us to come in and have a look around. He let us walk through the yard and the house, and I think I felt most emotional when I stood in her studio with the window looking out onto that landscape she loved so much. I remember tears escaping out the corner of my eyes, I was that moved being there. I walked through the kitchen, her bedroom, took photos of the sage bushes in the courtyard and of the wooden ladder leaning up against the end wall. After we left the house, my guide drove me round what he called O'Keeffe country, to all the places made immortal in her paintings. A day I will never forget.
I rode horseback on the Ghost Ranch with a guide. Mystical.
What a wonderful story! What a wonderfully incredibly talented unique character! How fortunate that you have such a wonderful personal tale for us❣ 🙏🙏🙏❣
Yeah. Luck happens.
I need to experience this. 🤍
I was a part of a group tour thru the Southwest, heading to NM. On the road our guide mention The house coming up was Georgia Okeefe. Somebody asked Can we see if? The guide, we can stop and pics outside but we can't go inside, it's not a museum. We all wanted to do, then, amazingly somebody from inside the house asked if we wanted to go inside and look around!!! WE DID. Then in Santa Fe, a couple of us went to sort of a studio, part of the University, maybe. Too bad I don't remember much, it was long ago, early 1990's. They have her drawings, everything, her hands touched those! Amazing.
Thank you. This video just popped up in my feed and I don’t know how or why. I needed to see this right now and didn’t even know how much I needed to. I am in the midst of having to redefine and restart my life in the sixth decade of life and this gives me the courage to live in my truth and forge ahead. What a remarkable and inspiring woman.
I too just had it pop up and didn't know how much I needed to see it. I've always loved her art, but understand it, and her, so much better now. It is time for me to go and feel New Mexico for myself - this lovely story told me so.
I, too, am in my sixth decade of life. This poem by Homer gives me the courage to live in my truth, "Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.". I hope it helps you, too. Take care.
👍
@@mendyboio3917 I have never read a more beautiful book than Homere Odysseus. Every human capable of reading should have read it, it's like no other book, it was written before the bible.
@shrinkdiva8271 Best of luck to you on your new journey
I just had to settle down and try. - what a genius.
Even her handwriting is flowing and artistic
❤❤❤
She was so incredibly beautiful and more so as she aged and her intelligence etched in her features.
I’ve been a fan all my life. This is the best documentary about her as a person that I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing it.
From the 800 page autobiography to attending the opening of the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe (Stayed at the old. Vargas Hotel which was scheduled to close shortly thereafter.) ... 50 years I have found inspiration as a woman and now as an artist from Georgia O'Keeffe, her work and approach to her life! Thank God for blessing humanity with this urbane soul!!
The jump in her work after the charcoals is astounding. She took away all the color…and it was only form. And then when she added color to the form…her paintings make a giant leap. Georgia knows she is a solitary creature. It’s not easy, but she chooses her work. This was a beautiful film. Thank you.
I noticed that too. While I get the art world was chauvinistic back then, I don't think she needed any of the feminist ties. For instance her paintings of the cities and later the skulls in their own right are some of the best. And in my opinion she might be up there in the top as best watercolour artists of modern times (not saying her oils weren't magnificent, but I've got a soft spot for watercolours). I can imagine her collaborating with Pink Floyd to produce something commercially reachable (I made a quick search and the flowers in The Wall art and animation, painted by Gerald Scarfe, are inspirationally linked to her indeed).
I’ll plpp😊😊
To see her progression as an artist is so interesting. You can see the growth and transformation. We all have stages in life. It's interesting to see others express it through art.
Always a surprise...I'd done a study of one of the flower paintings shown at exhibition, but because I'd only had black and white media (and neutral-toned paper as the middle ground) with me at the time, I'd been able to catch the transition you speak of: when Georgia had started to compose with colour on a new level. "Form follows drawing, colour follows form." It's easy enough as a catch-phrase, but I believe I'd had to learn it with my body. See it as something real for me. Now when I need to refocus my work, I return to charcoal rendering and basic form. There's nowhere to hide in the medium, no trick to fool myself, when the work goes into such simplicity. It's a great place for a change of direction.
I am 75 yr. old, and an I'm a fan of O'Keefe for a lot of years, to say the least! Yes, I know that everything said here about her painting form, style and subject matter are all true. But what "they" don't say is how sensual all her.paintings were! Its as if she took everything dusty and dry in the SW and made them appeal to the sensibilities in all of us! I still have the print I had hanging in my office when I had my career.
They didn’t include here her young man/companion she had until she died. The article I read said her family didn’t approve.
It's a shame that even today so much of her story is misinformed and un appreciated. This whole "woman artist" label is BS, O'Keefe was one of the most important painters ever, regardless of gender (American or otherwise.) in fact personally, I cannot declare anyone better. I only wish I could have known her, what special person.
Well said!
In contrast to growing old gracefully, Judy Chicago looks so artificial with her garish red hair and dark purple lipstick, the sunglasses don't help either.
She had such a dry sense of humor
Just looking at the New Mexico landscape in this film and listening to Georgia O'Keeffes story helps me to relax automatically. I feel bad for Stieglitz, he didn't feel empowered to visit her in New Mexico, he probably would have stayed. But that was their relationship. she's extremely talented and introspective, very good combination for an artist.
her sister too
I’ve loved art all my life. My dearest person in the world to me is my granddaughter Alice. We both so enjoy Georgia O’Keefe. As I watch this I think of her. ❤
Oh what a remarkable human she was. Found a unique path, invented and reinvented herself in whatever way pleased her most. What’s not to admire about a life so well lived? It’s a good reminder about the choices we make or might make.
It is. I want to sell everything that won’t fit in my car.
We experience trees in different ways ("hemming in" versus "friends all around".)
Thank you for this documentary, well done to capture her spirit. Because my Father was a board member of ghost ranch during the 1970's, I was fortunate to visit and meet Georgia. We sat and talked as I too always had a deep, natal-type connection to the geography and an artist at heart. Watching this has made me realize just how much I do miss taking out my brushes and paints and my silkscreen supplies to actually dedicate a goodly portion of my time to craft. The years slip by too quickly.
How wonderful that you and your father knew her . What many people would give to sit and have deep conversation with her ! ❤
Pick up those brushes! They will be good for your soul!
Because of this video about her life my life as an artist will begin all over again! Today 2023
What a wonderful artist and truly interesting person and story. I also love how simple life seemed to be then. No chasing money and things and constantly running - just being inspired and creating. Painting, sun bathing, walking, summer's on a lake. Oh what I wouldn't give for a year or two of that life.
Yes ❣ She is wonderful soul who made a special life for herself here on earth ❤❤❤ She died a very wealthy woman. An incredible artist, an insightful soulful writer.
Being in this place where her last years were spent gave Georgia inspiration that never failed..her art captures like no other..she lived for her art.
I was given the most Beautiful book, Alfred Stiglitz printed of her photograghs,, she was such a Remarkable painter, she was Always my Hero, you know for Male Artists, they Never Title them MALE ARTISTS. But for Georgia they Always titled her '" a female artist" why is that? She couldn't just stand by her name or her work alone, she had to be titled, " female" I truely love what she saw, how she rendered the waterfalls or the moon, or the mountains, or flowers, towards the end her work reminded me of Matisse just deduced to simple brilliant lines, she had Already rendered it a 100 different ways
Absolutely wonderful film! I learnt so much that I had never even realised how little I knew about her. Thank you.
Wow thanks for sharing this brilliant documentary. I only knew of Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings but there is so much more to her work.
Yes flowers... never knew the real Georgia O'Keeffe landscape artist🥺
I love that she was a trailblazer, that she had the courage to go it her way and live the life she wanted to live; we should all live life in this way. A wonderful video, thank you.
Wow, wish I had that clear vision of my life, love her determination and pursuing her creativity!!
This was done so well it honors her in the most beautiful way. Thanks for the posting of this work,
This documentary about Georgia O’Keefe is one of the best documentaries that I’ve ever watched. I am from Southeast Alabama where it’s very forested trees that does block your view. . I remember my first trip out west back in the 80s.. it was so different than anything that I’ve ever seen. I remember watching westerns that was made in the plains of West Texas and in New Mexico. But I didn’t really think it was or could be real. We were traveling around the United States in a motorhome doing work camping so we could afford it. We only worked like 20 hours a week so we had plenty of time to go out onto the plateau doing a lot of hiking in the remote areas and seeing the cliff dwellers and Mesa Verde I was very interesting so all of this said I know what she meant by it having a profound effect on you the landscape out west is just absolutely breathtaking! Thanks for sharing this with us out here in Southeast Alabama☮️❤️
She is my favorite artist. I feel so at home in the desert, and there is not a word for a person who loves the desert. There’s a word for a person that lives the ocean a person that loves the forest, but there is no word definitely not a desert dweller, but there is definitely no word, but she is a fabulous, strong positive woman. I can’t wait some day to go and move to New Mexico and go to her museum.
The word for a person who lives in the desert is "desertian." I don't know of a word for a person who loves the desert, but desertaphile might do.
Yes there is. Desert Rat
As a former longtime desert dweller, we describe ourselves as "desert rats". Meaning we dwell there and like rats, we burrow in and survive. You may use that. :)
@@Starfish2145 ahaha I didn't see this when I replied!!
“Perhaps the most inspiring woman artist ever” he said No, you mean “Perhaps the most inspiring artist ever” 💡
Right, when are we going to stop using gender? It's like saying, "she's great...for a woman."
Excellent. American exceptionalism. Georgia O'Keefe was a free thinker - an American icon. So inspirational.
Brilliant. And a total inspiration. Thank you.
I can understand wanting solitude to enjoy and see what surrounded her daily life. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting documentary. As an artist myself, I do understand Georgia O'Keeffe’s need or feeling to withdraw from the "civilised" world and to put down on canvas her inner emotions without any “toxic” interferences.
Yes, exactly.
Beautiful and inspiring. She was amazing
Ever since I learned about Georgia O'Keeffe in the '70s, I have loved her work and learning about her. After a gap of years, I am back. She was beautifully brilliant.
It's a nice, even 100 comments. I felt almost guilty making it 101. Loved this documentary. The visual language, often lost. But here it's vivid. So much so, that Stiglitz's first impression of her early charcoal drawings, "Finally. A woman on paper!" makes perfect sense. Thank you for putting this up here, for all to see.
Georgia O'Keeffe 🎨 Artist, World 🌎 Class
Truly wonderful
I enjoyed this doc about Georgia. ....especially glad no time was wasted concerning Juan Hamilton, a former nasty neighbor of mine up on Canyon Road who claims much more of Georgia than obviously is shown in this doc. Fabulous video.
Jesus u sound a lil bitter & jealous. U ok?
My sister's former fiancé published One Hundred Flowers back in the early 90s, Nicholas Callaway. We went to Abiquiu two years ago in March 2020 just as things were shutting down due to COVID, but had 4 lovely days at the Abiquiu Inn and Ghost Ranch and also Christ in the Desert Monastery.
What a privilege to peek into Georgia’s life- well done!
A very interesting life of a especial artist. I'm going to an exhibition of her art tomorrow. Lucky me!
WHAT A BRILLIANT HUMAN! LOVE GEORGIA!🌺
I am sorry I never got to meet Georgia O'Keefe. Being part of the Ansel Adams family, I felt strongly connected to her staying at the guest house where she stayed visiting Ansel in Carmel. In one of her books there is a picture of the living room where Virginia Adams kept her orchids Behind the sofa, the ocean behind. Ansel liked his Female Artist friends. Ansel's daughter Anne said he very much liked Imogen Cunningham She said Imogen Asked Ansel if he wanted to smoke some marijuana....... Ansel said "No".
O’Keeffe is my hero, for her life and her incredible art. Now I am almost 77 and if I live long enough I will have a roadmap face like hers.
The story of Georgia O'Keeffe is a wonderful tale - it's the experts I can do without .
I love that when I won an award in my first year in art school I was given a big book of her paintings which I cherish still. 💖🌸✨🖌️🎨
In patriarchy, "being independent" for a woman is not the same as "being independent" is for a man. A woman has to learn not to be afraid of being alone.
It's not learned. One is born with the need to be alone.
Yes. I was born with a need to be alone for extended periods of time, which I filled with writing. My daughter is the same. She chose not to have children to focus on her art and writing. I don't think either of us had to learn to not fear being alone. It feels natural to us.
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. Her work is profoundly beautiful and insightful. Her use of color is breathtaking. I hope to visit NM and her museum one day.
Yeah, the use of colour really makes me think
Thank you. She was an original.
"No cc track" makes it difficult for hearing-impaired people to participate. Maybe producing one could be a grant opportunity?
I always had this great love for music and was fortunate enough to be able to make my living playing and producing. In the early days I lived and breathed it. As a young child and into my teens music just came at me as this magic sound that could take you places in your imagination, but as the years went on and I began to learn more and more about it and how to analyze and create it, it lost a bit of that magic tho I still loved it as I do to this day. But mid life I began to get into art since I did not know the "tricks of the trade" so to speak like I had learned with music and to some extent I found I could stand in front of paintings and be transported once again into the land of imagination. Pictures of paintings are better than nothing at all, but to stand in front of the original, there's nothing like it. You get to see the brush strokes and see details that just don't translate to the picture medium. You also get a sense of being near the canvas that the artist actually touched. I found I really loved impressionism and when I discovered Van Gogh, I thought I had found heaven! Later there was Dali and Escher among many others, but then came Georgia. Oh my. If I had to be on an Island and could only have two artists books they would be Van Gogh and O'keeffe. But if I could only have one, I'd rather not go to the island. Having seen this and learned more about her, I would love to have been her friend! I so understand her need for solitude. That's where we find all the "goodies" and we are not bound by the shackles of society!
Georgia okeefe ❤
Enjoyed and learned a little more about America’s greatest painter, almost a natural modern artist.
I thank you for a most interesting & informative documentary. And the art, nature & images very beautiful indeed ❣️
Wow. She led such an interesting life. I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't done a biopic about her!
I also am reestablishing my life in my 6th decade i have always loved her work but this just also randomly popped up on my feed. I needed to hear this as well i am an artist of little note as yet it took me decades to have the self confidence & self esteem to put y art out there. Ive been a photographer most of my li, then i yook a bumch of art classes in college & found that i couldnt draw or paint my way out of a paperbag but when i melted my 1st puddle of metal in a welding/sculpture class i was hooked!! ive been on hiatus but am coming back!! I even got to do local rep. Theatre out here in the socal dez with my son on stage as well & it was so us & & do rewarding & a cherished memory. I am now anout to publish the first of 3 books on my local pioneering family history of my grandparents amazing lives & their dedication to family, hardwork,gumption & true grit
❤Wonderful documentary! I've watched it many times!❤❤❤
I just adore her.
And I thought I knew something about Georgia O’Keeffe. This was a wonderful documentary. One of the few famous artists that I can honestly say, I relate to. ❤
I love her red white & blue sense of humor.
Excellent ❣️
thank you for this sensorial history about an extraordinary American painter🦋
As a lifelong student of art, painting, and art history, O'keeffe never ranked very high on my long list of beloved artists. Back in art school, while she was still alive, a group of other students drove all the way from NYC to NM, with fervent hopes of visiting her. We all know that O'keeffe was quite reclusive, and I must say I admired her decision to not receive these uninvited guests. Long two-way drive for nothing!
This presentation is better than PBS
To Roveda Audiovisual team, I’m showing my concern that your public documentary film on Georgia O’Keefe is not accessible well enough for people with low hearing level. I’m disheartened to discover that this film did not bother to “turn on” the closed captions (CC). Please fix this. All you can do is to ask for Google Accessibility Services or KZhead. One of them would glad to help. Thank you for reading. Sincerely, TSalaway, Art Professor, Gallaudet University
A Lovely tribute to an amazing woman.
Beautiful
Look @ her handwriting. Epic! So sweet.
Very good documentary, Georgia led a very interesting life.
Thank you for this wonderful programme- i feel truly inspired by the drawing, the colours, the landscapes big and small, and by her as a woman.
It’s so interesting to hear her talk about her own work as opposed to art writers telling us their own interpretation of her paintings. Brilliant documentary, loved it!
Amazing to hear again of a time, when art for children was deemed - important in school, no more & I doubt it will be again. Fascinating film, brilliant person. :)Very surprised at Emmi Whitehorse & the whole bones? thing, Eyuck, could have done without her.Adored the other people.
Her life story is fascinating.
Thank you for this wonderfull documentary about Giorgia O'Keefe . I admire here person and art work all my life.
Thank you.
Superb video. Thank you. She remains a gift in the crazy, wonderful universe.
Stunning. Her, the landscape, her passion for it. #oneofakind
Thank you for posting this film, Estevon. It was pleasurable and inspiring.
Your welcome ❣️ Hope I don't get in trouble for posting it lol
What a fascinating, certainly a woman ahead of the times.
Her work has always appealed to me. And her courage in pursuing her work, in solitude, is inspiring. If we are meant to be fully ourselves, then she did a very good job of it.
All of the MFA students I have known take years to absolve themselves from the influence (the dominance)of their teachers.
Yes, O'Keefe was a pioneer for certain. There are many women artists that were also pioneers. Marilyn Bendell was an American impressionist who was a pioneer in her field. She was a top seller in Santa Fe for decades and many of those who enjoyed her work were surprised, much like O'Keefe, to discover she was a woman.
I never knew how beautiful and talented she was...what an amazing story ...thank u...
Excellent. Love her paintings and philosophy
Nice comment, i can see you really like her. Tell me what do you like about her?
I appreciate the documentary. Thank you
" I'm so emotion right now,I wish I'd of met her!"🎉
MIND BLOWING
Wonderful. In art school 1975, I rented her coffee table book from the library. Never returned it. Looked at the paintings in it for many years never knowing the inspirations behind them. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Beautifully made. I lived in New Mexico for 7+ year and it certainly is my main inspiration to learn how to draw and paint.
Because she is female, her sexual desire for one man is here inaccurately called “obsessive.” If we were speaking about man sleeping with numerous women it would be deemed normal. Her freedom took many forms, and her sexuality was expressed in her most beautiful works.
Male of female is not the issue. Sexual desire is addiction and can be controlled . Lust that caused her depression is her own stupidity.
Great documentary of one the greatest painters of our time. I live for this kind of stuff. Thank you!
A real artist ,it's so true ,no one can teach you to paint ,not a school. Nor another artist.its all about you.i love her soul.she reflected a spiritual being .as an artist myself ,I believe that miss O'Keefe was 2,000 years old .I loved her work.❤
È una pittrice che amo moltissimo in ogni suo periodo e ritengo troppo importante e che merita un rispetto ancora più grande, proprio perché risale ai tempi della pittura americane degli anni 20. Penso che meritava una trasmissione pulita e senza altri interessi che quelli culturali, privi dei contenuti offensivi. Io mi sono "riconosciuta" nella trasmissione e sono una artista visiva pittrice Zeljka Simic. DI me hanno scritto molti critici italiani e ho esposto nelle numerose gallerie in Italia e all'estero. Ho lavorato con una galleria a Roma, solo che non ebbi mai una storia con il gallerista. Non è nemmeno importante perché io non posso controllare il mio pubblico e sapere chi vi ha mandato questo contenuto. . Nella trasmissione ci sono altri due fotogrammi, una giovane donna con capelli legati in coda che doveva "interpretare" me, solo che io non sono una ragazzina e non indosso le camicie del disegno scozzese 'mentre lei passava voce accompagna questa "presenza " con il racconto, banale, che la pittrice dipinge di notte e che non sarà attenta al pavimento . Poi altra ragazza con i bracciali della bandiera italiana, come per alludere un aspetto fisico della altezza che è molto banale discutete se al nord o al sud si è più altri o meno ma messa in modo un po esplicito. Si vede un altro interesse che quello della divulgazione dell'arte , grazie Zeljka Simic artista visiva pittrice
I discovered her in 1984 in a small Canadian town (through a curator of an art gallery) and was in awe.
Thank you for this. I learned so much, and I loved seeing and learning it. Sincerely, Paula
🌼 I ADMIRE THE PAINTINGS, and the fact thato keefe is different than any other painter. i find that refreshing. a little put off by her interest in dead animals, however. 🍃
Wonderfully done. She is such a gift.
What a wonderful tribute film of an amazing artist! Thank you. I have always been an admirer of her work!!!! Thank you again!
❤Fantastic Documentary! True and real....beautifully done.
What a wonderful & moving a documentary. Five shiny stars ⭐
I love this and I love her ❤️
Fantastic documentary. She was an impressive artist, who had great taste in landscapes. The American Southwest is a beautiful, spiritual place, especially New Mexico. I want to retire there.
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you. I like her, and her art alot. I have mixed feelings about Alfred Stiglitz. Frankly I'd like to spend time studying any of the Life magazine photographers more than him. Georgia O'Keefe, has a very special place in my heart. Maybe I will get to meet her, in my next life. If you have any videos about the original 'Life Magazine' Photographers, and how they worked, I'd love to see that. Like Margret Bourke White. That gal was truly amazingly brave, I love her photo's? Talk about doing something dangerous to get a shot, or helping change the world by covering the life of one of the greatest men to ever stomp on the Terra! Mahatma Ghandie.