Carly's Contest Entry

In general, there is very little Modern Art that I enjoy. I'm a bit more traditional, but in the artists I like, I am generally drawn to the symbolism in the art more than the pure aesthetic. This is 'Blue Morning Glories' and I saw the original at the Museum at Vassar College.
To me, this piece is a perfect juxtaposition of masculine and feminine. I'm very drawn to the harmony I feel in this piece, as well.

I've really enjoyed looking at everyone's entries!

Carly

Contest #1: How do you choose only one?

I chose this painting "New York, Night," as a favorite because it reminds me of the years I spent living in mid-town Manhattan. Despite the fact that Georgia O'Keefe was there in the early part of the 1900s and I lived there sixty years later, this image captures the essence of evenings spent on my Hell's Kitchen rooftop. My then-boyfriend (now my husband) and I would go to the roof for the breeze, for privacy from the roommates who shared my tiny apartment, and for the view. The taillights of cars heading north on 10th avenue, the sound of honking taxi horns, the day's stored heat rising up from the tar paper roof, and the imagined lives being led within each lighted high rise window, all are captured here whether the year is 1929 or 1989.

New York is very different now than it was in the early '90s. Where once there were peep shows and adult bookstores, now there are Starbucks and Disney musicals. Times Square's wattage has increased ten-fold in those nearly 20 years. It may be cleaner, but in many ways it is stranger, somehow less like itself and more like Tokyo meets The Mall of America. But the biggest change of all is that the view I had from that rooftop. The two buildings that towered over the skyline to the south are gone. Still given all of the changes, and certainly there have been significant ones since 1929, this painting couldn't be anywhere but New York.

contest entry Pam K

Apple Blossoms

This is my favorite for many reasons. When I was a little girl my parents had these two large apple trees that were on there estate. I would climb those trees and sit in them in the spring just to smell those blossoms. There were so many of them that at times my mom said that you could not even see me in the tree because of all the flowers blossoms. She also told me that I would have to called in for lunch and then for Dinner because I would sit in one of those two trees all day smelling and feeling the petals. At night when it was time for my bath she always said that she could still smell the apple blossoms on my skin and she always called my her little apple blossom. I wish that I could afford a print of this because they would be in my living room but I much prefer the real thing. Some day I will have those apple trees for my little one's to do just the same. Wow, I can smell them already.

Contest #1

This is my favorite Georgia O'Keefe. It's not the traditional flower, but it is in a similar style. Plus, I these are some of my favorite colors.

Contest #1 - Georgia O'Keefe - Chrispy

I love the clean lines of this picture by Georgia O'Keefe. It is the Brooklyn Bridge. I can see a design forming just by looking at it. Simple and space but leaving the imagination to fill in the rest. I also liked this picture (scroll down and you will see the black bird and the sky).

The flowers of Georgia O'Keefe are lovely but this one stuck me by its simple beauty.

ETA: to change the pic to something that was not stealing bandwidth