Flower of life
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The stamens of an azalea. Taken with a Sigma 105mm macro lens @ f2.8 to get the soft focus and very low dof.
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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You know the song . immense field of flowers stretching as far as the eye could see, it was impossible not to step on them
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Watercolour painting. Size : 70CM X 100 CM. Inspired by several photos of Bird of Paradise that I took + a digital work that I made during the last Spring. Let the weekend bring JOY, your way…Thanks for taking your time to visit me here – it’s always a pleasure ! Copyrights© Nira Dabush .
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Mixed media work. I composed the background with a fractal design and photoshop elements. Ted took the photograph of this rose and made a perfect cut out. After blending the two and playing with filters I got this endresult.
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Copyright 2008-2009 © Helen Chierego / This image is protected by copyright law and is not to be used without express written permission from the copyright holder. / Images may not be copied, reproduced, altered or used for any advertising, displays, any other web sites or for any business or promotional purpose or any other way (whole or in part) without prior written approval of the copyright holder. / All Rights Reserved / / I started with a photograph that I set up and captured. The objects and flowers were arranged to face the Northern light that streams through myhome. I edited in Photoshop and hand painted with Corel Painter and my stylus and graphics tablet. Featured in the following Red Bubble / Groups / Digital Artists United / Impresionism Cafe / ” Impressionist Art” / Featured Fraternity 2010 Calendar now available!
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I found this in Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, parked outside an antique store….. it took me to times of old…. Featured – Nostalgic Art and Photography – May 2009 Top Ten Finish – Bicycles Challenge – May 2009 Top Ten Finish – Travel the Nostalgic Way challenge – May 2009
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/ Buy the card of Colour Of Life XXX here This image was featured in Colour Me Vibrant Red September 13, 2008.
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Oil Pastel And Acrylic (With minor digital enhancements) Here’s Ophelia all dressed up for a party that she’s hosting! A party that celebrates all that life has to offer,both the good and not so good :D She’s wearing her new flower feather clips and a ribbon belt to adorn her waist. All who read this will be invited! A belief that Life is to be celebrated, not just the ups but the downs too. It is easier to give thanks and rejoice when things go well for us but can we still do the same when things dont turn out the way we want them to? In dry or in bountiful times, I keep reminding myself to count my blessings…to adopt the mindset of abundance and not of scacity. In fact, everyday can be a celebration of life…just take a few moments..and you will find that you are “richer” than you think you are :D You can view and buy my other “Celebration Of Life” products at my Zazzle Gallery:
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This photo is also available in my calendar . See the entire collection: Colour Of Life Calendar
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mixed media on canvas 20”x24” one of an ongoing series of portraits…....
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STILL LIFE WITH RED CHAIR – DIGITAL PAINTING SOME OF MY OWN FAVORITE ART – CHOICES FROM NOV.10.2008 / THERE IS TO MANY TO SHARE BUT HERE IS 24. / HOPE YOU SHARE MY LIKES TOO. THANKS FOR LOOKING.
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Acrylic with metallic and glitter overlays on gallery wrap canvas, 40×40cm I should be feeling fantastic, my spirit should be soaring – instead I find myself earthbound and full of pain. Having stupidly broken my toe on Monday (the first broken bone ever), and being unable to take pain meds I just feel like crap. So I paint. This is for my sons girlfriends 18th Birthday and the symbology is clear (well, to me anyway) – but you can add your interpretations please:) Its also based in the song that I played a lot: INXS – Afterglow: “Touch me and I will follow in your afterglow / Heal me from all this sorrow / As I let you go I will find my way when I see your eyes / Now I’m living in your afterglow…” reproduced in part all credit and copyright of these lyrics belong to INXS
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When I decided to study nursing in the late 80’s, my Grandmother; who had been a nurse herself during the war years; gave me her old nursing text book, thinking that I might get some use from it. / As a nursing text it was an amusing way to learn all the things not to do, but for a peek into the past, it was priceless. / It is inscribed inside the cover with her name, the date – 1932, & the hospital at which she did her Nursing training. While leafing through the pages this afternoon I discovered this little gem, that I have never previously come across…. A new chapter – Bacteriology – begins. Words on the page like bacterium, microbe, pathogen, stagnant pools[???].... / But also; pressed lovingly between the pages; the remnants of a daisy flower & leaf, & a hand written note pertaining to “paroxysmal tachycardia”, & numerous other notations in the various margins, scribbled in pencil, obscure references to other strange states of health. Only my grandmother would know the truth of this page….. only she knows what made her secrete a once beautiful bloom there, amongst the stagnant & diseased. I feel like I’ve stumbled upon some bizarre time capsule…..... not so bizarre really…. just a touching reminder of someone once & still greatly loved. [Canon EOS 1000D] redbubble homepage feature – August 2009 /
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Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us. / ~ Story People
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I’m so excited …. I live a mile or so from Swan Island Dahlia Farm in Canby Oregon and they are starting to bloom. Here is my first photo from there. Gorgeous red beauty. I love the petals on this dahlia. Nikon D80 FEATURED in the #1 Artists of Redbubble group / FEATURED in the Beautiful group / / Most Popular / My Favorites / Dahlias / Vehicles and Trains / Calendars / T-Shirts Please visit my bubblesite. Images are categorized making it easier to find exactly what you are looking for. For my partners photographs and writings, please see Chris Donner’s RB site Thanks for taking the time to enjoy my work. Cee
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all done in corel x 2 and redfield /
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Sunflowers near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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This pansy sure like like it has a tree of life on it. Taken with my Nikon D80 FEATURED in the Yellow Two group / Most Popular / My Favorites / Dahlias / Cards and Collages / Calendars Please visit my bubblesite. Images are categorized making it easier to find exactly what you are looking for. For my partners photographs and writings, please see Chris Donner’s RB site Thanks for taking the time to enjoy my work. Cee
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Just trying something new. A friend asked for this and made a print on canvas. I was quite pleased with how it looks. With each episode of our lives, a droplet falls from the flower of life
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