This interpretation was challenged by a 2016 Tate Modern retrospective featuring the recently-sold Jimson Weed. For 10 points each:
[10m] Describe this common interpretation of one artist’s paintings, first proposed by her husband Alfred Stieglitz and applied to works such as Red Cannas.
ANSWER: Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings depict the vagina [accept specific flowers such as cannas and irises; accept genitalia or vulva in place of “vagina”; prompt on answers referring to vaginas]
[10e] Many of O’Keeffe’s flower paintings were made in this state, where she lived at the Taos Art Colony.
ANSWER: New Mexico [prompt on NM; prompt on Land of Enchantment]
[10h] Lewis Mumford compared the 1927 exhibition of this O’Keeffe flower painting to “sex as gaudy as Ten Nights in a Whorehouse.” This flower painting uses shades of gray, purple, and maroon.
ANSWER: Black Iris III
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