...informed by her ability to select, not to describe: "Nothing is less real than realism." she explained. "It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things."1 This approach is abundantly evident in her depiction of a smgie apple, bone, or blossom ¡fig....

...context, led her to formulate the following maxim in 1922: "Nothing is less real than realism. [...] It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things." In her search for the "real" meaning of things, O'Keeffe appears to take up the equivocalness of reality...

...essence of the effort, its center of gravity. To paraphrase a thought of the artist Georgia O'Keefe ("It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things"*), do not merely reproduce, as that assures less merit than in the original. Computer programs borrowed...

...Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the twentieth century's great artists, acknowledged this reality when she said, "Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing....emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things" (Udall 1996). When artists do this well, people say "Ah, yes" and know it for the truth. All performing...

...a white napkin and an oil of a dark purple apple on a napkin with a few grapes. O'Keeffe explained, "Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing....elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."16 Like the Apple Family pictures, these isolated apples seem to operate as symbolic self-portraits....

...O'Keeffe maintained a distance from the argument that photography had made realist painting redundant: "Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing....elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."21 O'Keeffe promoted her painted depictions of shells and flowers (several of them from New...

...infrastructure. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back RUSSIA'S FAILED CONSOLIDATION IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1922' Until the 2003 election,...

...THE JAPANESE HAIKU AND THE SKEPTICISM TOWARDS LANGUAGE IN MODERNIST AMERICAN POETRY GUDRUN M. GRABBER Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing....elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.1 In 1989 I applied to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for a one-month scholarship...

...Psychoanalysis, 76, 653-662. Updike, J. (2007, April 2). The valiant Swabian. New Yorker Magazine, pp. 74-78. 1 Introduction Nothing is less real than realism. Details...we get at the real meaning of things. — Georgia O'Keefe (quoted in Crunden, 2000, p. 284) WE SHOULD BE WARY about whether we are entitled to strong...