1. Abstraction

2. Learning Targets Understand the artistic process of abstraction thought the brief study of artist Georgia O’Keefe. Create abstract images from organic real life objects

3. Success Criteria I can: Create an abstract composition from organic real objects. Use the pastel “thinner technique” to create smooth textures.

5. American Woman Artist

6. Lived 1887-1986 She died at the age of 98.

7. “Sometimes I have resisted painting something that seemed to me so ordinary, hardly worth doing. But when I do it and it’s done, it’s different from what other people see. It is ordinary to me but not to you.” -Georgia O’Keefe

8. In her “flower” paintings, O’Keefe enlarged an Ordinary plant, then tightly cropped, flattened, and simplified its shape. O’Keefe abstracted each of her flowers in a different way. “

14. “I started to paint big flowers in the 20’s, When everything was going so fast. Around then, I saw a painting with a flower in it – it Was so beautiful, but So small you really could not appreciate it. Then and there, I decided to stop time And paint that flower on a huge scale – then You couldn’t ignore it’s beauty.” - Georgia O’Keefe

17. “I believe to create One’s own world in any of the arts Takes great courage.” -Georgia O’Keefe

19. “The abstraction is often the form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only make clear in paint.” -Georgia O’Keefe

23. STUDENT ARTWORK

32. Assignment Create a close-up abstract oil pastel painting from an organic real life object. 15 inch x 15 inch water color paper Submit final painting and reference photo on Wednesday January 20 th by the end of class. 200 pts

33. Grading Criteria Creativity Initiative Abstraction Oil Pastel technique Skill Development Quality Presentation