Georgia O’Keeffe was born in 1887 and grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. Growing up, she studied art in Chicago and New York. She was under the supervision of many male artists who taught her different techniques. O’keeffe decided to express her feelings and ideas through abstraction. By the 1920s, she was known to be one of the most successful and important female artists. She was mostly known for drawing skyscrapers and flowers. By 1929, O’keeffe moved to New Mexico and painted many different skulls she found.
During her time in New Mexico, she would find skulls of different animals and painted them. One of the paintings being “The Horse’s Skull on Blue”. The blue contrast in the background represented the blue skies in her state. She described the painting as “a joke on the American scene”. O’keeffe talked about how that skull felt more lively than any living thing that roams the earth. She felt more of a connection with the skull than anything else considering she felt lonely living in that state.
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