| Oriental Poppies | |
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| Artist | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Year | 1927 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 101.6 cm× 76.2 cm(40.0 in× 30.0 in) |
| Location | Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis |
Oriental Poppies, also called Red Poppies, is a 1927 oil-on-canvas painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. [1] [2] [3] [lower-alpha 1] It is a close-up of two Papaver orientale flowers that fill the entire canvas. [1]
The Arts Desk describes it as more subtle but equally powerful as Calla Lilies on Red, "Peering into the bright-orange petals, O’Keeffe reveals the velvety dark interior. The drama of this provocative image stems from the juxtaposition of vivid color and intrusive close-up." [4] Of the large close-up, O'Keeffe said that she decided that she would paint flowers "big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers." [3] Making close-ups of flowers is said to have been influenced by her husband Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer, after they began a more sexual relationship. [7]
Along with Black Iris, Liese Spencer of The Guardian calls it one of "her lush, sensual paintings of flowers." [8] It fills the nearly four foot wide canvas, without a background, so that the flowers "explode" on the canvas, and direct the eye to the center of the flowers. It is among her most famous works of art. [6]
The painting is owned by the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota, [1] where as of July 2016 [update] it was the most valuable painting in their collection. [9] Prior to its acquisition in 1937, it was exhibited by Stieglitz at his gallery, An American Place, in New York City. [1] [10]
In 2016, Tate Modern in London exhibited Oriental Poppies along with more than 100 of O'Keeffe's major works of art, made over six decades. [7] The exhibition was also held at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna that year. [11]
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