I went to the Denver Art Museum (The DAM) today to see the new Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit. It made for a very enjoyable afternoon. In addition to her paintings and drawings, there was also a short film about her life put together by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When she was young, Georgia O'Keeffe first gained fame with her abstract paintings. The art critics loved them, and insisted they were expressions of O'Keeffe's powerful sexuality. O'Keeffe was horrified, and stated that this was definitely not what these paintings were about. In response to this, she began painting more realistic images, such as pears, instead. Then O'Keeffe started painting giant flowers. The critics loved these paintings, too, and insisted that they were VERY sexual in meaning. After that O'Keeffe moved to New Mexico and started painting cow skulls, and was finally able to confound the art critics. You might say she had them "buffaloed."
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