Georgia O Keeffe s Influence On Art And Becoming An Artist

Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887. She grew up in Wisconsin with her father and mother, Francis Calixtus O’Keeffe and Ida Totto, and her 6 siblings. Throughout most of her childhood, she became curious about the world and developed an eager interest in art and becoming an artist. Art was always in her life because her grandmother and her two sisters always leisurely painted as well. She continued to follow her curious wonders about art at Sacred Heart Academy. By the age of 15, Georgia O’Keeffe had already became an independent driven artist. At her high school, she eventually joined the yearbook staff and became the art editor of the yearbook (â€Å"Georgia O Keeffe†). After she graduated, she moved to Chicago where she attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. A year later, she traveled to New York to continue her art studies and took classes at the Art Students League where she learned the ideas of a realist painter. Not only did she study in the classroom on art, she ventured out into art galleries as well. Another year later, she returned home to take care of her sick mother but that did not stop her from studying art. In 1912, she took art classes during the summer at the University of Virginia where she was influenced by Japanese art (â€Å"Georgia O Keeffe†). Eventually, Georgia O’Keeffe began exploring with the ideas she had studied causing her to break away from realism. She started to progress her own expression through more abstract art. She