Which female American painter was responsible for 'Cow's Skull', 'Yellow Calla' and 'Two Poppies'?
Oriental Poppies (painting) Oriental Poppies (painting) Oriental Poppies, also called Red Poppies, made by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1927, is a close-up of two "papaver orientale" that fills the entire canvas. "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." 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
Yellow Cow been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. "Yellow Cow" dates to Marc’s formative phase, during which he developed the "Farbsymbolik" (color symbolism) that permeates the painting. For Marc, blue was equated with spirituality and maleness, yellow with femininity and sensuality, and red with the earth. The colors in the painting should therefore not be taken as naturalistic, but rather, as symbolically representing the sense of the objects in the work. Marc's use of color (in this work and others) was greatly influenced by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. According to art historian Mark Rosenthal, Yellow Cow