CERRO PEDERNAL BY GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)

Cerro Pedernal (3,006 m - 9,862 ft)

United State of America (New Mexico) 

1. In Road to Pedernal, 1936, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe

2.   In Cerro Pedernal at dawn, 1936, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe

3.  In Pedernal from Ghost ranch, 1936, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe

The mountain 

Cerro Pedernal  (3,006 m - 9,862 ft) locally known as just "Pedernal", is a narrow mesa in northern New Mexico (U.S.A). The name is Spanish for "flint hill". The mesa lies on the north flank of the Jemez Mountains, south of Abiquiu Lake, in the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest.  Cerro Pedernal is essentially a high, long butte created by a volcanic process. Viewed along its East-West line, it appears as a tall point rising out of the New Mexico desert, but viewed along its North-South vantage, its true shape is more apparent as a long ridge.

Pedernal is the source of a chert used by the prehistoric Gallina people. The native peoples of the area used the rock around this mountain for arrowheads and other tools. 

Its cliffs are popular with rock climbers. Despite Cerro Pedernal's history and beauty, she is seldom climbed. The high butte is ringed by a long, sheer cliff band that seems impossible to climb unroped. Perhaps this is why few see her summit. However, there is a weakness in the cliffs that offers a short Class 4 scramble to the top. From the summit of Cerro Pedernal, you are afforded uncommon views. The Sangre de Cristo range is visible from Colorado to New Mexico. The Colorado 14er Culebra Peak is easily visible, as well as New Mexico's highest point, Wheeler Peak. On a clear day, the southern San Juan range in Colorado is visible, and even the La Platas around Durango. Ringing Cerro Pedernal is the Jemez range, which are mostly rolling mountains with lush greens. To the West is high desert landscape of deep red sandstone, blue rivers, and the tans and browns of the high desert. The summit of Cerro Pedernal is quite a spectacular spot. 

The famous artist Georgia O'Keeffe used to live for a time in this area (Ghost Ranch) and painted Cerro Pedernal several times (more than 20 paintings). She referred to Pedernal as her "favorite mountain."   Her ashes were scattered on its top.

The painter 

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.
Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”
Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art.  In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

BLACK MESA (3) PAINTED BY GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

 

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)
Black Mesa (1,739 m - 5,705 feet)
United States of America (Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma)

In Near Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1931 Oil on canvas, 0.6 x 91.4 cm, Georgia O' Keeffe Museum

 

The painter
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction. O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.
Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”
Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art. In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

The mountain 
Black Mesa  (1,739 m - 5,705 feet) is a mesa in the U.S. states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It extends from Mesa de Maya, Colorado southeasterly 28 miles (45 km) along the north bank of the Cimarron River, crossing the northeast corner of New Mexico to end at the confluence of the Cimarron River and Carrizo Creek near Kenton in the Oklahoma panhandle. Its highest elevation is  in Colorado. The highest point of Black Mesa within New Mexico is 1,597 m -  5,239 feet.  The plateau that formed at the top of the mesa has been known as a "geological wonder" of North America. There is abundant wildlife in this shortgrass prairie environment, including mountain lions, butterflies, and the Texas horned lizard.
The plateau has been home to Plains Indians.
In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century the area was a hideout for outlaws such as William Coe and Black Jack Ketchum. The outlaws built a fort known as the Robbers' Roost. The stone fort housed a blacksmith shop, gun ports, and a piano. The present-day Oklahoma Panhandle area, which was then considered a no man's land, lacked law enforcement agencies and hence the outlaws found it safe to hide in the region. However, as new settlers arrived in the area for copper and coal mining and also for cattle ranching activities by grazing cattle in the mesa region, law enforcement became more effective, and the outlaws were brought under control.
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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

CERRO PEDERNAL (2) BY GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)

Cerro Pedernal (3,006 m - 9,862 ft)

United State of America (New Mexico) 




 In Cerro Pedernal, 1941, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fé




The mountain 

Cerro Pedernal  (3,006 m - 9,862 ft) locally known as just "Pedernal", is a narrow mesa in northern New Mexico (U.S.A). The name is Spanish for "flint hill". The mesa lies on the north flank of the Jemez Mountains, south of Abiquiu Lake, in the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest.  Cerro Pedernal is essentially a high, long butte created by a volcanic process. Viewed along its East-West line, it appears as a tall point rising out of the New Mexico desert, but viewed along its North-South vantage, its true shape is more apparent as a long ridge.

Pedernal is the source of a chert used by the prehistoric Gallina people. The native peoples of the area used the rock around this mountain for arrowheads and other tools. 

Its cliffs are popular with rock climbers. Despite Cerro Pedernal's history and beauty, she is seldom climbed. The high butte is ringed by a long, sheer cliff band that seems impossible to climb unroped. Perhaps this is why few see her summit. However, there is a weakness in the cliffs that offers a short Class 4 scramble to the top. From the summit of Cerro Pedernal, you are afforded uncommon views. The Sangre de Cristo range is visible from Colorado to New Mexico. The Colorado 14er Culebra Peak is easily visible, as well as New Mexico's highest point, Wheeler Peak. On a clear day, the southern San Juan range in Colorado is visible, and even the La Platas around Durango. Ringing Cerro Pedernal is the Jemez range, which are mostly rolling mountains with lush greens. To the West is high desert landscape of deep red sandstone, blue rivers, and the tans and browns of the high desert. The summit of Cerro Pedernal is quite a spectacular spot. 

The famous artist Georgia O'Keeffe used to live for a time in this area (Ghost Ranch) and painted Cerro Pedernal several times (more than 20 paintings). She referred to Pedernal as her "favorite mountain."   Her ashes were scattered on its top.




The painter 

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.

Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.

O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.

In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.

In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.

Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”

Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art.  In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.

Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

EL MISTI PAINTED BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)
El Misti or Guagua Putina (5,822m -19,101ft)

Peru

The mountain 

El Misti (5,822m -19,101ft) also known as Guagua Putina, is a stratovolcano located in southern Peru near the city of Arequipa. With its seasonally snow-capped, symmetrical cone, Misti lies between mount Chachani (6,075m - 19,931ft) and Pichu Pichu volcano (5,669 m -18,599 ft).

El Misti  is located at 3,415m above the sea level on the Altiplano and the elevation of the cone is approximatively 2,400m  above the Altiplano base. El Misti has three concentric craters. In the inner crater fumarole activity can often be seen. The symmetric conical shape of El Misti is typical of a stratovolcano, a type of volcano characterized by alternating layers of lava and debris from explosive eruptions, such as ash and pyroclastic flows. Stratovolcanoes are usually located on the continental crust above a subducting tectonic plate. The magma feeding the stratovolcanoes of the Andes Mountains, including El Misti, is associated with ongoing subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate. Its most recent relatively minor eruption was in 1985, 198 years after its previous documented eruption. Near the inner crater six Inca mummies and rare Inca artifacts were found in 1998 during a month-long excavation directed by archaeologists Johan Reinhard and Jose Antonio Chavez. These findings are currently stored at the Museo de Santuarios Andinos in Arequipa. The city center of Arequipa, Peru, lies only 17 kilometers (11 miles) away from the summit of El Misti; the gray urban area is bordered by green agricultural fields. With almost 1 million residents in 2009, it is the second largest city in Peru in terms of population. Much of the building stone for Arequipa, known locally as sillar, is quarried from nearby pyroclastic flow deposits that are white. Arequipa is known as the “White City” because of the prevalence of this building material. The Chili River extends northeastwards from the city center and flows through a canyon between El Misti volcano and Nevado Chachani to the north. Nevado Chachani is a volcanic complex that may have erupted during the Holocene Epoch (from about 10,000 years ago to the present), but no historical eruptions have been observed there.

The painter 

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.

Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.

O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.

In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.

In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.

Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”

Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art.  In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.

Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

-  Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 

CERRO PEDERNAL (3) BY GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887-1986)

Cerro Pedernal (3,006 m - 9,862 ft)

United State of America (New Mexico) 

In Red Mesa, watercolor, 22,9 x30,5 cm, Private collection 

About thos watercolor 

Georgia O'Keeffe used to live for a time in this area (Ghost Ranch) and painted Cerro Pedernal more than 20 times. She referred to Pedernal as her "favorite mountain." Her ashes were scattered on its top.

The mountain
Cerro Pedernal (3,006 m - 9,862 ft) locally known as just "Pedernal", is a narrow mesa in northern New Mexico (U.S.A). The name is Spanish for "flint hill". The mesa lies on the north flank of the Jemez Mountains, south of Abiquiu Lake, in the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest. Cerro Pedernal is essentially a high, long butte created by a volcanic process. Viewed along its East-West line, it appears as a tall point rising out of the New Mexico desert, but viewed along its North-South vantage, its true shape is more apparent as a long ridge.
Pedernal is the source of a chert used by the prehistoric Gallina people. The native peoples of the area used the rock around this mountain for arrowheads and other tools.
Its cliffs are popular with rock climbers. Despite Cerro Pedernal's history and beauty, she is seldom climbed. The high butte is ringed by a long, sheer cliff band that seems impossible to climb unroped. Perhaps this is why few see her summit. However, there is a weakness in the cliffs that offers a short Class 4 scramble to the top. From the summit of Cerro Pedernal, you are afforded uncommon views. The Sangre de Cristo range is visible from Colorado to New Mexico. The Colorado 14er Culebra Peak is easily visible, as well as New Mexico's highest point, Wheeler Peak. On a clear day, the southern San Juan range in Colorado is visible, and even the La Platas around Durango. Ringing Cerro Pedernal is the Jemez range, which are mostly rolling mountains with lush greens. To the West is high desert landscape of deep red sandstone, blue rivers, and the tans and browns of the high desert. The summit of Cerro Pedernal is quite a spectacular spot.

The painter
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.
Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”
Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art. In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

CRISTO MOUNTAINS BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)

Cristo mountains (4,374m-14, 351ft)

United States of America (Colorado and New Mexico) 

In Rust red hills, Cristo Mountains in Taos County New Mexico, 1930, oil on canvas

The mountains
Cristo mountains  (culminating at Bianca Peak 4,374m-14, 351ft ), origanally The Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish for "Blood of Christ")  are the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains. They are located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in the United States. The mountains run from Poncha Pass in South-Central Colorado, trending southeast and south, ending at Glorieta Pass, southeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The mountains contain a number of fourteen thousand foot peaks in the Colorado portion, as well as all the peaks in New Mexico which are over thirteen thousand feet.
The name of the mountains may refer to the occasional reddish hues observed during sunrise and sunset, and when alpenglow occurs, especially when the mountains are covered with snow. Although the particular origin of the name is unclear, it has been in use since the early 19th century. Before that time the terms "La Sierra Nevada", "La Sierra Madre", "La Sierra", and "The Snowies" (used by English speakers) were used. According to tradition, "sangre de Cristo" were the last words of a Catholic priest who was killed by Indians.

The painter 

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.
Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”
Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art.  In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

GORE MOUNTAIN & LAKE GEORGE PEINTES PAR GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)
Gore Mountain (1,086 m- 3,553 ft)
United States of America (New-York State)

In  Lake George by Early Moonrise, 1930, oil and gouache on canvas, Adirondacks.

 
La montagne
Gore Mountain (1,086 m - 3,553 ft) est une montagne de la chaine des Adirondacks, située près du village de North Creek dans le comté de Warren, New York, dont son sommet est le point culminant. Gore est flanqué au nord par South Mountain et au sud-ouest par Height of Land Mountain. La montagne est connue pour la station de ski  très populaire qui porte son nom  Gore. Elle est aussiun site d'observation des incendies construit dès 1918.  Gore Mountain tire son nom du mot "gore", une étendue de terre, généralement triangulaire, résultant de manière caractéristique de lignes d'arpentage qui ne se ferment pas. La montagne n'a pas été étudiée au début de la colonisation de la région des Adirondacks, car elle était considérée comme sans valeur pour les premiers agriculteurs et bûcherons. Elle était considérée comme trop haute et  trop escarpée pour l'agriculture ou l'exploitation forestière tirée par des chevaux. Elle est resté un "gore" et le nom est resté comme Gore Mountain.
Gore Mountain se trouve dans le bassin versant de la rivière Hudson qui se déverse dans le port de New York. L'extrémité sud de Gore Mountain se déverse dans la Black Mountain River, puis dans la Chatiemac River, la North  River et  nfin l' Hudson River.  Le grenat industriel est extrait de la mine de grenat Barton depuis 1878, lorsque Henry Hudson Barton a commencé à l'extraire pour l'utiliser comme abrasif pour papier de verre  La roche qui contient ces grenats, appelée unité Gore Mountain Garnet, est une amphibolite grenat.

La peintre
Georgia O'Keeffe est l'une des artistes les plus importantes et les plus intrigantes du XXe siècle, connue internationalement pour son art audacieusement innovant. Ses fleurs , ses paysages urbains spectaculaires, ses paysages lumineux et ses images d'os contre le ciel désertique sont des contributions emblématiques et originales au modernisme américain.
Née le 15 novembre 1887, deuxième de sept enfants, Georgia Totto O'Keeffe a grandi dans une ferme près de Sun Prairie, dans le Wisconsin. Elle étudie à l'Art Institute of Chicago en 1905-1906 et à l'Art Students League de New York en 1907-1908. Sous la direction de William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora et Kenyon Cox, elle apprend les techniques de la peinture réaliste traditionnelle. La direction de sa pratique artistique changea radicalement en 1912 lorsqu'elle étudia les idées révolutionnaires d'Arthur Wesley Dow. L'accent mis par Dow sur la composition et le design offrait à O'Keeffe une alternative au réalisme. Elle a expérimenté pendant deux ans, alors qu'elle enseignait l'art en Caroline du Sud et dans l'ouest du Texas. Cherchant à trouver un langage visuel personnel à travers lequel elle pourrait exprimer ses sentiments et ses idées, elle entame en 1915 une série de dessins abstraits au fusain qui représente une rupture radicale avec la tradition et fait d'O'Keeffe l'un des tout premiers artistes américains à pratiquer l'abstraction pure. .
O'Keeffe a envoyé certains de ces dessins très abstraits à un ami à New York, qui les a montrés à Alfred Stieglitz. Marchand d'art et photographe de renommée internationale, il fut le premier à exposer son travail en 1916. Il deviendra finalement le mari d'O'Keeffe.
À l'été 1929, O'Keeffe a effectué le premier de nombreux voyages dans le nord du Nouveau-Mexique. Le paysage austère, l'art indigène distinct et le style régional unique de l'architecture en adobe ont inspiré une nouvelle direction dans son œuvre. Pendant les deux décennies suivantes, elle a passé une partie de la plupart des années à vivre et à travailler au Nouveau-Mexique. Elle a fait de l'État sa résidence permanente en 1949, trois ans après la mort de Stieglitz. Les peintures du Nouveau-Mexique d'O'Keeffe ont coïncidé avec un intérêt croissant pour les scènes régionales manifesté par les modernistes américains à la recherche d'une vision distinctive de l'Amérique. Dans les années 1950, O'Keeffe a commencé à voyager à l'étranger. Elle a créé des peintures évoquant les lieux s qu'elle a visités, notamment les sommets montagneux du Pérou et le mont Fuji au Japon. À soixante-treize ans, elle se lance dans une nouvelle série centrée sur les nuages dans le ciel et les rivières en contrebas.
Souffrant de dégénérescence maculaire et découragée par sa vue défaillante, O'Keeffe a peint sa dernière peinture à l'huile sans aide en 1972. Mais la volonté d'O'Keeffe de créer n'a pas diminué avec sa vue. En 1977, à quatre-vingt-dix ans, elle observe : « Je peux voir ce que je veux peindre. La chose qui donne envie de créer est toujours là."
Tard dans la vie, et presque aveugle, elle a fait appel à plusieurs assistants pour lui permettre de créer à nouveau. Georgia O'Keeffe est décédée à Santa Fe, le 6 mars 1986, à l'âge de 98 ans.
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TAOS MOUNTAIN PEINT PAR GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

 

 

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Taos Mountain (3300m)
Etats Unis d'Amérique (Nouveau Mexique

In Mountains at Bear Lake, Taos.

L'artiste
Georgia O'Keeffe, est une peintre américaine considérée comme une des peintres modernistes et des précisionnistes majeures du 20e siècle. Vers 1929, désireuse d'échapper au Lake George, où elle a l'habitude de passer ses étés entourée de la famille et des amis d'Alfred, elle se rend à Taos, au Nouveau-Mexique en compagnie d'une amie, Rebecca Strand. À la recherche de sujets, Georgia explore les environs, dont le ranch de l'écrivain D. H. Lawrence qui lui inspirera une de ses toiles les plus connues, The Lawrence Tree. Durant les vingt années suivantes, elle séjourne fréquemment dans la région.
En 1933, elle est hospitalisée pour une dépression alors qu'elle est incapable d'achever dans le temps imparti un projet de peinture murale au Radio City Music Hall. Elle ne peindra plus rien de l'année. Durant l'été 1934, rétablie, elle retourne au Nouveau-Mexique où elle visite la région de Ghost Ranch près d'Abiquiú. Séduite, elle y séjourne chaque année avant d'acheter, en 1940, une propriété à cet endroit et de s'y installer en permanence. Les paysages quasi désertiques lui inspirent une œuvre fantastique et visionnaire.
Sa réputation s'étend et Georgia O'Keeffe reçoit plusieurs commandes. Son travail fait également l'objet d'expositions. En 1936, elle peint Summer Days, une de ses œuvres les plus réputées. Elle reçoit l'honneur de deux rétrospectives, à l'Institut d'art de Chicago en 1943 et au Museum of Modern Art à New York, première rétrospective accordée par ce musée à une artiste femme. O'Keeffe devient récipiendaire de nombreuses distinctions honorifiques.
En 1946, Stieglitz est atteint d'un infarctus. Bien que Georgia et lui ne maintenaient plus qu'une relation distante, elle se trouve à ses côtés lorsqu'il meurt le 13 juillet. Elle s'occupera de disperser ses cendres et durant les trois années suivantes, elle s'occupe d'inventorier ses biens : plus de 3 000 photographies, une collection de 850 œuvres, 580 épreuves d'autres photographes, un énorme inventaire de livres et d'écrits, ainsi que près de 50 000 lettres. Georgia O'Keeffe fait plusieurs dons à différentes institutions muséales.
Elle s'installe de manière permanente au Nouveau-Mexique en 1949. Elle rénove son domaine et continue de peindre, inspirée notamment par les nuages qu'elle peut contempler en avion. En 1962, O'Keeffe devient la 55e membre de l'Académie américaine des arts et des lettres. Elle est également élue fellow de l'Académie américaine des arts et des sciences en 1966. À l'automne 1970, le Whitney Museum of American Art lui consacre une rétrospective qui contribue à la remettre à l'avant-scène, son art ayant été quelque peu éclipsé par les courants apparus durant les années 1960. Les paysages du Nouveau-Mexique lui offrent de nouveaux sujets. Ses toiles représentant des crânes d'animaux, peints minutieusement, cherchent à symboliser la beauté du désert. Ses nombreux voyages en avion durant les années 1950 et 1960 lui inspirent sa série sur les nuages avec des toiles souvent de grandes dimensions. L'art de Georgia O'Keeffe, un temps considéré moderniste et d'avant-garde, est basé sur une observation minutieuse de la nature et sur sa volonté de peindre ce qu'elle ressent. Elle demeurera à l'écart des courants, suivant sa propre voie. Ses gros plans de fleurs, qui caractérisent une bonne partie de sa production, révèlent son sens aigu de l'observation. Le format de ses toiles, les couleurs et les nuances rendent ses tableaux pratiquement abstraits.
À sa mort, Georgia O'Keeffe laisse environ 900 tableaux.

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2024 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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BLACK MESA ( 2) PAINTED BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

 

 

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Black Mesa (1,739 m - 5,705 ft)
United States of America (Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma)

In Mesa and Road East, oil on canvas, 1952, Private collection

The mountain
Black Mesa (1,739 m - 5,705 feet) is a mesa in the U.S. states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It extends from Mesa de Maya, Colorado southeasterly 28 miles (45 km) along the north bank of the Cimarron River, crossing the northeast corner of New Mexico to end at the confluence of the Cimarron River and Carrizo Creek near Kenton in the Oklahoma panhandle. Its highest elevation is in Colorado. The highest point of Black Mesa within New Mexico is 1,597 m - 5,239 feet. The plateau that formed at the top of the mesa has been known as a "geological wonder" of North America. There is abundant wildlife in this shortgrass prairie environment, including mountain lions, butterflies, and the Texas horned lizard. The plateau has been home to Plains Indians. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century the area was a hideout for outlaws such as William Coe and Black Jack Ketchum. The outlaws built a fort known as the Robbers' Roost. The stone fort housed a blacksmith shop, gun ports, and a piano. The present-day Oklahoma Panhandle area, which was then considered a no man's land, lacked law enforcement agencies and hence the outlaws found it safe to hide in the region. However, as new settlers arrived in the area for copper and coal mining and also for cattle ranching activities by grazing cattle in the mesa region, law enforcement became more effective, and the outlaws were brought under control.


The painter
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.
Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”
Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art. In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
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MONT MACHU PICCHU PEINT PAR GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)
Mont Machu Picchu (2 430m)
Pérou

In Machu Picchu, Morning Light (1957) Huile sur toile, 61 x 45.7 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago (Donation Rosenbaum)

Le site
Machu Picchu (2430m) du quechua machu pikchu, litt. « vieux sommet », est une ancienne cité inca du xve siècle au Pérou, perchée sur un promontoire rocheux qui unit les monts Machu Picchu et Huayna Picchu (« le Jeune Pic » en quechua) sur le versant oriental des Andes centrales. Son nom aurait été Pikchu ou Picho. Considérée comme une œuvre maîtresse de l'architecture inca , elle est peu à peu abandonnée après l'effondrement de l'Empire inca au XVIe siècle, puis méconnue durant des siècles en dehors de la population locale. Cela lui a conféré une réputation de « cité oubliée ». Machu Picchu fut explorée en 1911 par l'archéologue américain Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), professeur assistant d'histoire de l'Amérique latine à l'université Yale, qui la fit connaître dans un ouvrage de référence. Le site est généralement considéré comme une des résidences de l'empereur inca Pachacútec. Quelques-unes des plus grandes constructions et le caractère cérémonial de la principale voie d'accès au llaqta évoquent un sanctuaire religieux. En revanche, les experts ont écarté l'idée d'un ouvrage militaire. Au centre d'un ensemble culturel et naturel connu sous le nom de « Sanctuaire historique de Machu Picchu », le site est depuis 1983 sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO et depuis le XXIe siècle une des destinations touristiques les plus visitées de la planète, suscitant des mesures de régulation du surtourisme.

La peintre
Georgia O’Keeffe est une peintre américaine considérée comme une des peintres modernistes et des précisionnistes majeures du xxe siècle. L'art de Georgia O'Keeffe, un temps considéré moderniste et d'avant-garde, est basé sur une observation minutieuse de la nature et sur sa volonté de peindre ce qu'elle ressent. Elle demeurera à l'écart des courants, suivant sa propre voie. Ses gros plans de fleurs, qui caractérisent une bonne partie de sa production, révèlent son sens aigu de l'observation. Le format de ses toiles, les couleurs et les nuances rendent ses tableaux pratiquement abstraits. Les paysages du Nouveau-Mexique lui offrent de nouveaux sujets. Ses toiles représentant des crânes d'animaux, peints minutieusement, cherchent à symboliser la beauté du désert. Ses nombreux voyages en avion durant les années 1950 et 1960 lui inspirent sa série sur les nuages avec des toiles souvent de grandes dimensions.
À sa mort, Georgia O'Keeffe laisse environ 900 tableaux.
En novembre 2014, la vente aux enchères du tableau « Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 » en salle des ventes à New York, estimé initialement à 15 millions de dollars, monte à 44,4 millions de dollars, établissant par la même occasion un nouveau record mondial lors d'une vente aux enchères pour une artiste féminine.Le Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, un musée consacré à l'artiste, a été inauguré en 1997, à Santa Fe, grâce aux avoirs légués à sa mort. Sa maison à Abiquiú a été déclarée National Historic Landmark en 1998. Un film inspiré de son mariage a été réalisé par Edwin Sherin en 1991, A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Un film biographique de Bob Balaban, Georgia O'Keeffe, est paru en 2009. Ses œuvres font partie des collections de nombreuses institutions muséales.

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LE PIC WHEELER PEINT PAR GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Le Pic Wheeler (4,011m)
United States of America (Colorado and New Mexico)

In The Mountain, New Mexico, 1931, Oil on canvas ,76.4 × 91.8 cm 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

L'artiste
Georgia O'Keeffe, est une peintre américaine considérée comme une des peintres modernistes et des précisionnistes majeures du 20e siècle. Vers 1929, désireuse d'échapper au Lake George, où elle a l'habitude de passer ses étés entourée de la famille et des amis d'Alfred, elle se rend à Taos, au Nouveau-Mexique en compagnie d'une amie, Rebecca Strand. À la recherche de sujets, Georgia explore les environs, dont le ranch de l'écrivain D. H. Lawrence qui lui inspirera une de ses toiles les plus connues, The Lawrence Tree. Durant les vingt années suivantes, elle séjourne fréquemment dans la région.
En 1933, elle est hospitalisée pour une dépression alors qu'elle est incapable d'achever dans le temps imparti un projet de peinture murale au Radio City Music Hall. Elle ne peindra plus rien de l'année. Durant l'été 1934, rétablie, elle retourne au Nouveau-Mexique où elle visite la région de Ghost Ranch près d'Abiquiú. Séduite, elle y séjourne chaque année avant d'acheter, en 1940, une propriété à cet endroit et de s'y installer en permanence. Les paysages quasi désertiques lui inspirent une œuvre fantastique et visionnaire.
Sa réputation s'étend et Georgia O'Keeffe reçoit plusieurs commandes. Son travail fait également l'objet d'expositions. En 1936, elle peint Summer Days, une de ses œuvres les plus réputées. Elle reçoit l'honneur de deux rétrospectives, à l'Institut d'art de Chicago en 1943 et au Museum of Modern Art à New York, première rétrospective accordée par ce musée à une artiste femme. O'Keeffe devient récipiendaire de nombreuses distinctions honorifiques.
En 1946, Stieglitz est atteint d'un infarctus. Bien que Georgia et lui ne maintenaient plus qu'une relation distante, elle se trouve à ses côtés lorsqu'il meurt le 13 juillet. Elle s'occupera de disperser ses cendres et durant les trois années suivantes, elle s'occupe d'inventorier ses biens : plus de 3 000 photographies, une collection de 850 œuvres, 580 épreuves d'autres photographes, un énorme inventaire de livres et d'écrits, ainsi que près de 50 000 lettres. Georgia O'Keeffe fait plusieurs dons à différentes institutions muséales.
Elle s'installe de manière permanente au Nouveau-Mexique en 1949. Elle rénove son domaine et continue de peindre, inspirée notamment par les nuages qu'elle peut contempler en avion. En 1962, O'Keeffe devient la 55e membre de l'Académie américaine des arts et des lettres. Elle est également élue fellow de l'Académie américaine des arts et des sciences en 1966. À l'automne 1970, le Whitney Museum of American Art lui consacre une rétrospective qui contribue à la remettre à l'avant-scène, son art ayant été quelque peu éclipsé par les courants apparus durant les années 1960. Les paysages du Nouveau-Mexique lui offrent de nouveaux sujets. Ses toiles représentant des crânes d'animaux, peints minutieusement, cherchent à symboliser la beauté du désert. Ses nombreux voyages en avion durant les années 1950 et 1960 lui inspirent sa série sur les nuages avec des toiles souvent de grandes dimensions. L'art de Georgia O'Keeffe, un temps considéré moderniste et d'avant-garde, est basé sur une observation minutieuse de la nature et sur sa volonté de peindre ce qu'elle ressent. Elle demeurera à l'écart des courants, suivant sa propre voie. Ses gros plans de fleurs, qui caractérisent une bonne partie de sa production, révèlent son sens aigu de l'observation. Le format de ses toiles, les couleurs et les nuances rendent ses tableaux pratiquement abstraits.
À sa mort, Georgia O'Keeffe laisse environ 900 tableaux.

La montagne
Le pic Wheeler (4 011 m) est le point culminant de l'État américain du Nouveau-Mexique. Il se situe au nord-est de Taos et au sud de Red River, au Nord de l'État. Le chaînon Sangre de Cristo (4357m), localement appelé chaînon oriental, est un étroit massif de montagnes des Rocheuses d'orientation nord-sud, située sur le bord oriental du rift du Rio Grande dans le Sud du Colorado aux États-Unis. Les montagnes s'étendent sur 95 km, du col Poncha au col Mosca et forment une haute crête séparant la vallée de San Luis à l'ouest du bassin de l'Arkansas à l'est. Selon l'USGS, le chaînon est la partie septentrionale des monts Sangre de Cristo, qui s'étendent à travers le Nord du Nouveau-Mexique. L'usage des termes « chaînon Sangre de Cristo » (Sangre de Cristo Range) et « monts Sangre de Cristo » (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) varie ; le premier inclut parfois la sierra Blanca, et donc le pic Blanca (4 372 m), et s'étend ainsi jusqu'au col La Veta.

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FUJIYAMA / 富士山 PAINTED BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986),

Fujiyama / 富士山 (3,776.24 m -12,389 ft) 

Japan

The painter 

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.
Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there.”
Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art.  In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.
Georgia O’Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

The mountain 

 Mount Fuji or Fujiyama (富士山) also called Fujisan  (3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) is located on Honshu Island and is the highest mountain peak in Japan. Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–08.

Fujiyama  lies about 100 kilometres (60 mi) south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day.

Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped several months a year, is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers.

Mount Fuji is one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains (三霊山) along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. It is also a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and one of Japan's Historic Sites.

It was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22, 2013. As per UNESCO, Mount Fuji has “inspired artists and poets and been the object of pilgrimage for centuries”. UNESCO recognizes 25 sites of cultural interest within the Mt. Fuji locality. These 25 locations include the mountain itself, Fujisan Hongū Sengen Shrine and six other Sengen shrines, two lodging houses, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Kawaguchi, the eight Oshino Hakkai hot springs, two lava tree molds, the remains of the Fuji-kō cult in the Hitoana cave, Shiraito Falls, and Miho no Matsubara pine tree grove; while on the low alps of Mount Fuji lies the Taisekiji temple complex, where the central base headquarters of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism is located.

Approximately 300,000 people climbed Mount Fuji per year. The most-popular period for people to hike up Mount Fuji is from July to August, while huts and other facilities are operating. Buses to the fifth station start running on July. Climbing from October to May is very strongly discouraged, after a number of high-profile deaths and severe cold weather. Most Japanese climb the mountain at night in order to be in a position at or near the summit when the sun rises. The morning light is called  goraikō, (御来光) "arrival of light".

There are four major routes from the fifth station to the summit with an additional four routes from the foot of the mountain. The major routes from the fifth station are (clockwise): Yoshida, Subashiri, Gotemba, and Fujinomiya routes. The routes from the foot of the mountain are: Shojiko, Yoshida, Suyama, and Murayama routes. The stations on different routes are at different elevations. The highest fifth station is located at Fujinomiya, followed by Yoshida, Subashiri, and Gotemba.

Even though it has only the second-highest fifth stations, the Yoshida route is the most-popular route because of its large parking area and many large mountain huts where a climber can rest or stay. 

Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, much attention was given to the potential volcanic reaction of Mt. Fuji. In September 2012, mathematical models created by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NRIESDP) suggested that the pressure in Mount Fuji's magma chamber could be at 1.6 megapascals, higher than it was in 1707. This was commonly reported in the media to mean that an eruption of Mt. Fuji was imminent. However, since there is no known method of measuring the pressure of a volcano's magma chamber directly, indirect calculations of the type used by NRIESDP are speculative and unprovable. Other indicators suggestive of heightened eruptive danger, such as active fumaroles and recently discovered faults, are typical occurrences at this type of volcano.

MACHU PICCHU PAINTED BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)

Machu Picchu (2,430 m -7,970 ft)

Peru

1. In Machu Picchu, morning light (Peruvian Landscape), n.d. watercolor on paper (9 x 11 7/8 i.), 

Heckscher Museum of Art

The mountain and site 

Machu Picchu  is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 m -7,970 ft above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District in Peru, above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. Machu Picchu lies in the southern hemisphere, 13.164 degrees south of the equator. It is 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Cusco, on the crest of the mountain Machu Picchu, located about 2,430 m-7,970 feet above mean sea level, over 1,000 m-3,300 ft lower than Cusco, which has an elevation of (3,600 m -11,800 ft. As such, it had a milder climate than the Inca capital. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in South America, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Latin America  and the most visited in Peru.

The city sits in a saddle between the two mountains Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu, with a commanding view down two valleys and a nearly impassable mountain at its back.

Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). Often mistakenly referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas" (a title more accurately applied to Vilcabamba), it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911.

The Painter
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.
Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. She experimented for two years, while she taught art in South Carolina and west Texas. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.
In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.
In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru (see above) and Japan’s Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below....

MOUNT MANSFIELD PAINTED BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887-1986) 

 Mount Mansfield  (1,339m - 4,393ft) 

United States of America (Vermont) - Canada border 

In  The Green Mountains, oil on canvas, 1932, The Art Institute of Chicago

The mountains

Mount Mansfield   (1,339m - 4,393ft)  is the highest point of The Green Mountains, a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont,  part of the Appalachian Mountains, that stretches from Quebec in the north to Alabama in the south. The Green Mountains are part of the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion. The range runs primarily south to north and extends approximately 250 miles (400 km) from the border with Massachusetts to the border with Quebec, Canada. The part of the same range that is in Massachusetts and Connecticut is known as The Berkshires or the Berkshire Hills (with the Connecticut portion, mostly in Litchfield County, locally called the Northwest Hills or Litchfield Hills) and the Quebec portion is called the Sutton Mountains, or Monts Sutton in French.

All mountains in Vermont are often referred to as the "Green Mountains". However, other ranges within Vermont, including the Taconics — in southwestern Vermont's extremity—and the Northeastern Highlands, are not geologically part of the Green Mountains.

The painter 

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative art. Her distinct flowers, dramatic cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the stark desert sky are iconic and original contributions to American Modernism.

She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908. Under the direction of William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically in 1912 when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow’s emphasis on composition and design offered O’Keeffe an alternative to realism. Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.

O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O’Keeffe’s husband.

In the summer of 1929, O’Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O’Keeffe’s artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico . She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death. O’Keeffe’s New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.

In the 1950s, O’Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan’s Mount Fuji. 

Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972.  Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art.  In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.

BLACK MESA PEINTE PAR GEORGIA O' KEEFFE

 

GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1887–1986)
Black Mesa (1,739 m - 5,705 feet)
United States of America (Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma)

In Out Back of Marie 's 1930,  Tate London

La montagne
Black Mesa (1 739 m - 5 705 pieds) est un releif de type " mesa" situé dans les États américains du Colorado, du Nouveau-Mexique et de l'Oklahoma. Il s'étend de Mesa de Maya, Colorado vers le sud-est sur 45 km le long de la rive nord de la rivière Cimarron, traversant l'angle nord-est du Nouveau-Mexique pour se terminer au confluent de la rivière Cimarron et du ruisseau Carrizo près de Kenton dans l'enclave de l'Oklahoma. Son altitude la plus élevée se situe dans le Colorado. Le point culminant de Black Mesa au Nouveau-Mexique est de 1 597 m - 5 239 pieds. Le plateau qui s'est formé au sommet de la mesa est connu comme une "merveille géologique" de l'Amérique du Nord. Il y a une faune abondante dans cet environnement de prairie à herbes courtes, y compris des pumas, des papillons et le lézard à cornes du Texas. Le plateau a abrité des Indiens des Plaines.
À la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle, la région était un repaire de hors-la-loi tels que William Coe et Black Jack Ketchum. Les hors-la-loi ont construit un fort connu sous le nom de Robbers' Roost. Le fort en pierre abritait un atelier de forgeron, des ports d'armes à feu et un piano. La région actuelle de l'Oklahoma Panhandle, qui était alors considérée comme un no man's land, manquait d'agences d'application de la loi et, par conséquent, les hors-la-loi ont trouvé qu'il était sûr de se cacher dans la région. Cependant, à mesure que de nouveaux colons arrivaient dans la région pour l'extraction du cuivre et du charbon ainsi que pour les activités d'élevage de bétail en faisant paître le bétail dans la région de la mesa, l'application de la loi est devenue plus efficace et les hors-la-loi ont été maîtrisés.

La peintre
Georgia O'Keeffe, est une peintre américaine considérée comme une des peintres modernistes et des précisionnistes majeures du 20e siècle. L'art de Georgia O'Keeffe, un temps considéré moderniste et d'avant-garde, est basé sur une observation minutieuse de la nature et sur sa volonté de peindre ce qu'elle ressent.  Elle demeurera à l'écart des courants, suivant sa propre voie. Ses gros plans de fleurs, qui caractérisent une bonne partie de sa production, révèlent son sens aigu de l'observation. Le format de ses toiles, les couleurs et les nuances rendent ses tableaux pratiquement abstraits. Les paysages du Nouveau-Mexique lui offrent de nouveaux sujets. Ses toiles représentant des crânes d'animaux, peints minutieusement, cherchent à symboliser la beauté du désert. Ses nombreux voyages en avion durant les années 1950 et 1960 lui inspirent sa série sur les nuages avec des toiles souvent de grandes dimensions. À sa mort, Georgia O'Keeffe laisse environ 900 tableaux.

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