Grandma's Joy

Grandma's Joy, pastel, 10x8" (30x20 cm.) This painting was voted "Best Portrait" at the San Diego Portrait Sociey meeting last week, on March 10th. La Alegria de la Abuela, fue votado "mejor retrato" en la reunion de la Sociedad de Retratos de San Diego, el 10 de marzo, la semana pasada.

I recently attended a lecture about Georgia O'Keeffe's Abstractions. When she was studying art, at the beginning of the 20th century, the custom was to copy from the Masters and from molds. Her teacher Arthur Wesley Dow, who had studied in Paris, taught her "not to copy nature", but to create her own harmonious design. He was a pioneer in the USA in teaching the design of nature. It was the time of the Art Nouveau/Modernism, which took hold strongly in America, and greatly influenced Georgia O'Keeffe.
Hace poco asisti a una conferencia sobre las Abstracciones de Georgia O'Keeffe. Cuando ella estudiaba arte al principio del siglo XX, era la costumbre de copiar de los Maestros y de moldes. Su maestro Arthur Wesley Dow, quien habia estudiado en Paris, le enseno a "no copiar la naturaleza", sino a crear su propio diseno armonioso. El fue un pionero en USA en ensenar los disenos de la naturaleza. En esa epoca el Modernismo/Art Nouveau habia tomado fuerza en USA e influencio mucho a Georgia O'Keeffe.