“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small🌺. So I said to myself - I’ll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it 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.”  - Georgia O’Keeffe  - Born 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Died 1986, Abiquiu, New Mexico     ✨Georgia O’Keeffe united a modernist sensibility with a keen eye to the realism of her environment. This allowed her to eliminate extraneous details, flatten space and simplify compositions to their essence, all the while carefully observing the colors, shapes and light found in nature. In paintings like Purple Petunias, O’Keeffe explored cropped, close-up views of flowers and leaves in a magnified scale with an extremely shallow depth of field. Using bold and saturated shades of blue and violet, O’Keeffe suggests that the edges of the canvas cannot contain the expansiveness of the petunia blossoms.    Georgia O’Keeffe,  P...