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| Born in New York City,
Arnold Newman is one of the most celebrated portraitists of the twentieth
century. Influenced by many different artistic styles, Newman seeks
to convey information about the sitter by selecting pose and props
to surround his subjects. The result is the often-contrasting ideas
of obvious elements in the photograph versus the more analytical where
one has to look more deeply into the meaning. Among the many subjects Newman photographed is the painter Georgia O’Keeffe, who is most well known for her colorful and textural paintings of life in a desert. In Georgia O’Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Newman depicts the painter through her style in art. In this photograph, we can see the stark simplicity and rich texture of her desert paintings by Newman’s showing of O’Keefe’s classical profile standing in front of a blank white canvas in the middle of a desert. The blank white canvas is an allusion to O’Keefe being a painter while the desert background is a reference to the subject matter she paints. Newman makes a third reference to O’Keefe’s artwork and style by having a ram skull hanging over the canvas to remind the viewer of the skull paintings she is famous for.  (For Grades 4-6) Arnold Newman likes to do portraits of people that reveal things about them. If he were to do a portrait of you, what might it look like? Where would you be? What would you be doing? What objects would you include in your portrait? The image is a portrait of the painter, Georgia O’Keefe, who is most well known for her colorful paintings of life in a desert. What do you see in the photograph that shows who she is and what she paints? |
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