Machu Picchu Print, Georgia O’Keeffe Green Mountain Art

The Machu Picchu print uses a compact vertical view of green ridges, blue distant peaks, and drifting mistlike clouds. O’Keeffe does not describe the ruins in a tourist-postcard way. She focuses on the steep mountain forms nearby, turning the subject into a tight study of color, height, and atmospheric distance.

About Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) is often called the mother of American modernism. O’Keeffe became famous for enlarged flowers painted so close that they become almost abstract. Movements such as Fauvism, Cubism and Expressionism all grew out of early 20th-century modernism. Modernist art broke with tradition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, experimenting with colour, form and abstraction.

Styling this Georgia O’Keeffe print

This Georgia O’Keeffe print pairs a moody atmosphere with a blue and green palette that is easy to build a room around. Choose 24×36″ to make “Machu Picchu” the focal point of a living room, or 11×14″ to 16×20″ for a bedside or hallway wall. The blue and green palette of “Machu Picchu” pairs naturally with white walls, navy or denim textiles and pale oak; finish it with a simple black or oak frame.

At a glance

• Type: Georgia O’Keeffe print
• Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe
• Style: Modernism
• Colours: blue and green
• Mood: moody
• Subject: Mountains
• Orientation: portrait
• Collections: Georgia O’Keeffe Posters, Modernist Art Prints