The method I use is - as I'm reading - jot down - in the margin - the main point and then i underline key words in the text. Where possible I jot down a synonyms for the key words. So 'an immutable sense of who she was...' became 'self-confidence'.
Below is a list of the notes I made while you were reading and planning your recast text on this article last week. They are slightly edited. My original first reading notes had only about 5 secondary points. After a second reading I added another 8.
We've been recommending since the beginning of the year that you read, annotate and research the context of each of the 38 articles relevant to the exam.
I've not checked your independent work but I expect each of you will have a revision file with notes on each article similar to the notes below on Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe Notes
- Georgia O'Keeffe challenged received role of women
- and she knew her life would be an active fight
- strong sense of self - self confidence
- highly motivated - determined
- traditional rural upbringing - apparently
- played with toys - dolls, painted watercolours of cloud filled skies
- her mother read stories of the wild west
- early ambition to be an artist
- despite having very limited access or knowledge of art
- she enjoyed a pen and ink drawing of Maid of Athens
- from one of her mother's books
- and one or two other illustrations from Mother Goose fairy tale
- she disagreed with authority figures from an early age
- at 13 she was shocked at having a drawing criticised by a teacher
- later she loved the natural world
- and enjoyed walking alone in it when she was a student
- she did not like still life drawing
- and at the Art Institute in Chicago she rejected classes in anatomy
- Even contemporary students considered her work inferior
- she was told she would be a better model than artist
- another fellow student painted over her work
- she dismissed Impressionism
- and figures of authority artistic establishment dismissed her work
- aged 24 she moved to Texas with her sister
- here she felt free
- walking into the wilderness she loved and craved the emptiness
- on one walk - while her sister was shooting empty bottles with a rifle - she became fascinated by a star
- and painted ten watercolours of it
Synopsis
Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keefe her first gallery show in 1916 and the couple married in 1924. O'Keeffe moved to New Mexico after her husband's death and was inspired by the landscape to create numerous well-known paintings. Georgia O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986.
Early Life
Artist and painter Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Known for her striking flower paintings and other captivating works, O'Keeffe was one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century. She took to making art at a young age and went to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s. Later, while living in New York, she studied with such artists as William Merritt Chase as a member of the Art Students League.
Famed Artwork
O'Keeffe found an advocate in famed photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. He showed her work to the public for the first time in 1916 at his gallery 291. Married in 1924, the two formed a professional and personal partnership that lasted until his death in 1946. Some of her popular works from this early period include Black Iris (1926) and Oriental Poppies (1928). Living in New York, she translated some of her environment onto the canvas with such paintings as Shelton Hotel, N.Y. No. 1 (1926).
After frequently visiting New Mexico since the late 1920s, O'Keeffe moved there for good in 1946 after her husband’s death and explored the area's rugged landscapes in many works. This environment inspired such paintings as Black Cross, New Mexico (1929) and Cow's Skull with Calico Roses (1931).
Death and Legacy
O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe, Mexico. As popular as ever, her works can be seen at museums around the world as well as the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Click here for a link to some of her work and a little bit more about the article
