THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Question
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Georgia O’Keeffe was:
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an American artist; she gained fame for her paintings of New Mexico and of flowers in extreme close-up. Her works were representative of modernism during the 1920s.
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American songwriter; he gained popularity during the 1920s for such compositions as “White Christmas.”
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Composer whose famous piece Rhapsody in Blue showed the impact of jazz music on the 1920s.
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a 20th-century artistic movement that contended that traditional art was outdated and no longer meaningful in the new, industrialized, urban world.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Born in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist who painted nature in a way that showed how it made her feel.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the mid-1920s, O’Keeffe was recognized as one of America’s most important and successful artists, known for her paintings of New York skyscrapers-an essentially American symbol of modernity-as well as her equally radical depictions of flowers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O’Keeffe has been called the “Mother of American modernism".
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