Prior to the advent of photographic cropping, landmark modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) produced “Poppy” and other large-scale works, creating fantastically magnified images which completely dominated the canvas. Shunning artistic realism as inauthentic and confusing, O’Keeffe believed that true artistic meaning was only achieved through selection, elimination and emphasis of specific details. “Poppy,” an early venture in her trademark series of flower paintings, remains one of her most popular works, even being reproduced as a postage stamp.

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