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The Met Georgia O'Keeffe

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This was pretty difficult to get through due to the formatting of the digital ARC being disordered and confusing, but the basic information is there.

The facts and little tasks make it a good introduction for young readers to get a feel for Georgia O'Keeffe's work and an artists' perspective, but I personally was a little disappointed that the books illustrations took centre stage over the works of Georgia O'Keeffe herself, I would have like the artist's work to shine in it's own right, and for details and elements to be picked out and showcased a bit more. It felt a bit like her own works were an aside. That said, the illustrations are pretty, I just felt like I was left with a greater appreciation of the illustrator's work than Georgia O'Keeffe's.

Thank you to the publishers for the opportunity to review an Advanced Reader Copy.

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I head a lot about Georgia O'Keefe, saw some of her pictures but I didn't know a lot about her.
This was an excellent way to learn about this painter and excellent introduction to her life and works.
I assume it should be for children but it worked very well for me.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

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This, quite frankly, was a first class art history lesson, and excuse me for being British but the subject is nowhere near as well-known as she is in the US, making this even more valuable. At first I wasn't sure why the narrative needed to be peppered with questions and tasks from a disembodied art teacher, but I accepted that by the end – and the end here is a good spread of the original O'Keeffes as seen in the New York Met collection, and ideas for getting a similar response in our own art. In fact, knowing so little about the woman as I did I could not be sure the versions of her paintings as seen in the narrative section of the book were accurate, but they certainly seem to be now. So this book gets us brush or pencil in hand and thinking about art, as well as giving us a biography of one of America's finest. I've had great art biogs before, and I've had great art impetus volumes before now. This is both in one, and connected with such an esteemed name and such an esteemed museum, only seems to match them in quality.

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This is one of The Met's titles, that chronicles the life and work of one artist. This illustrated volume focuses on Georgia O'Keeffe.

I have a love for many different artists without being aware of anything other than the briefest of details for their lives outside of the canvas. This simple and brief guide has allowed me to become acquainted with who the artist was, where she resided, and facts about her life from infancy and up until death.

I appreciated how this was laid out chronologically but also contained a timeline for some of O'Keeffe's most infamous pieces at the end. This volume was illustrated on every page, in a bright and vivid style, and also contained many ideas for younger readers to look at the world with an artist's eye. It is a great read for a younger audience but I also found it highly interesting, as I knew very few of the facts it contained.

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