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ArtCurious Podcast

Episode #86: Art Fact and Fiction: Are Georgia O'Keeffe's Paintings References to the Female Body? (S10E03)

ArtCurious Podcast

ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8847 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In our tenth season, we’re going at art history with a skeptical eye and a myth-busting attitude to uncover the fictions and facts about some of our favorite artists. We’re starting our season today with this controversial subject: Are Georgia O'Keeffe's floral paintings direct references to the female body? Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Twitter / Instagram / Facebook Don’t forget to show your support for our show by purchasing ArtCurious swag from TeePublic! SPONSORS: HoMedics: receive a FREE PORTABLE PHONE SANITIZER when you buy $100 or more in massage products Indeed: Listeners get a free $75 credit to upgrade your job post BetterHelp: Listeners enjoy 10% off your first month of counseling Feals: Get 40% off your first three months with free shipping Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/ArtCuriousPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. Before we begin, I just want to note that I'm talking about the terms

0:46.4

female and feminine anatomy today, but want to note that not everybody who has those kind of

0:52.6

biological markers are necessarily women or call

0:55.8

themselves women or female. Just putting that out there, but for the sake of ease today, I will call

1:01.7

it female anatomy. Thank you for listening. To say it best, we've been told by advertisers that we

1:09.0

should say it with flowers.

1:14.1

And flowers are a common subject in the history of art.

1:19.5

After all, who doesn't want to paint or look even at a freshly budding bouquet?

1:26.0

And some of the most famous and most lauded and even most expensive works of art in the world have been paintings of flowers. Think about works by

1:29.6

Van Gogh, Monet, Moro, Renoir, and of course, Georgia O'Keefe, one artist whose body of work

1:36.9

is truly synonymous with flowers. This 20th century artist's monumental floral paintings are

1:42.6

hallmarks of her of, and notable elements

1:45.6

in the canon of the history of art in and of themselves. Over the course of her career, Georgia

1:51.3

O'Keeffe painted over 2,000 works of art, and around 200 of them contain flowers. When most

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