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This 5 page paper discusses the works of O'Keefe, Lange, and Lloyd Wright and analyzes them for elements of modernism. Examples from Oriental Poppies, Migrant Mother, and Fallingwaters. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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characteristics remain to bring the artist into the category of modern art. Georgia OKeefes Oriental Poppies, Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother and Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water, all embody this growing
and challenging of boundaries, significance, style and use of medium. And, in the end, each lays a legitimate claim to the term, Modern Art. Given that modernism is speaking about
a work of art, then one has to state, obviously, that this type of artwork was primarily concerned with the quality of color, perhaps moreso, than subject matter. For example,
Manet, would be a great example of some of the earliest forays into this movement. Notice in his Le Dejeuner Sur Lherbe the element of color, spatial relationships and light
values. Of course, this begs the question, does it not? What made painters become modern painters? Why didnt they stick to what was popular, commissioned, and desired? The answer has
to lay in the fact that previous art forms had ceased to offer the freedom of expression that the newer artists longed for(Varnedo 22). As newer philosophies of thought and
newer innovations in science began to pervade the human experience, the art, it can be said, changed to reflect this. One major difference was that "aesthetic value is an ultimate
value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to others, was that modern art had driven itself into the embrace of the abstract by shifting
its focus onto the conditions of the medium, or in other words the lack of depth(flatness). Though many might disagree, photography can lend itself to the same status as paintings
and other such works of art. Consider that done right, photography has the ability to capture a moment in time and forever suspend it for the viewer. These moments in
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