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As we honor very special women during these days as we celebrate women's achievements around the world, I would like to remind you that 35 years ago - on March 6, 1986 - the brilliant American painter Georgia O'Keeffe died.
Look in this gallery for some of his works.
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A work by Georgia O'Keeffe at London's Tate Modern in 2016. (Rob Stothard / Getty Images)
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His work is considered a pioneer in American art, and for this Georgia received many awards in life, including the prestigious Medal of Freedom and the United States National Medal of Arts.
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His landscapes of the desert and the mountains of New Mexico reflect his great admiration for the nature that surrounded him.
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O'Keeffe - who was bothered by the machismo that he always attributed to his paintings, connotations and Freudian sexual symbols - partially lost his sight due to macular degeneration, and since 1971 he had only side vision.
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The artist developed her love for painting in Manhattan - where the art world was flourishing with great success.
And there she met her future husband, the fabulous photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
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His world in Santa Fe, New Mexico - where he lived since 1949 - was fascinating, although many artists would not have followed in his footsteps to such harsh and desert places at the beginning of the 20th century.
But it was a habitat that inspired her nonetheless - and where she lived for many years.
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As we honor very special women during these days that we celebrate women's achievements around the world, I would like to remember that 35 years ago - on March 6, 1986 - the great American painter Georgia O'Keeffe died.
He was 98 years old and had lived in his own way, in his style and painting what he liked and was curious about.
His work is considered a pioneer in American art, and for this Georgia received many awards in life, including the prestigious Medal of Freedom and the United States National Medal of Arts.
I love his flowers - and the very special style in which he painted them - although one of his favorite works is his vision of the clouds from an airplane!
And, when I fly, I portray the clouds and the sky a lot, inspired by it!
His landscapes of the desert and the mountains of New Mexico reflect his great admiration for the nature that surrounded him.
His world in Santa Fe, New Mexico - where he lived since 1949 - was fascinating, although many artists would not have followed in his footsteps to such harsh and desert places at the beginning of the 20th century.
But it was a habitat that inspired her nonetheless - and where she lived for many years.
He fell in love with the mountains: "It's my private mountain, it belongs to me, God told me that if I painted it enough, I could keep it," he once said to explain his love for the New Mexico landscape.
Curiously, her origins had been very different and very bucolic - she grew up the daughter of a successful farmer who raised cows in Wisconsin - something common for descendants of European immigrants in the 19th century.
A work by Georgia O'Keeffe at London's Tate Modern in 2016. (Rob Stothard / Getty Images)
After an exclusive religious education at the private school of the Sacred Heart, the nascent artistic world of New York, at the beginning of the 20th century marked his future.
And the rest is history.
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The artist developed her love for painting in Manhattan - where the art world was flourishing with great success.
And there she met her future husband, the fabulous photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
O'Keeffe was a very private, disciplined woman - who respected nature - and taught art classes (for several years before arriving in New York).
"To create your own world you need courage," he said.
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O'Keeffe - who was bothered by the machismo that he always attributed to his paintings, connotations and Freudian sexual symbols - partially lost his sight due to macular degeneration, and since 1971 he had only side vision.
After settling in the American West, she never wanted to live in New York again - where she had painted skyscrapers and bridges - and lived with her husband, the brilliant Stieglitz, with whom she fell in love "at first sight."
Stieglitz's death in 1946 - after 22 years of marriage - prompted his permanent move to Santa Fe.
As you can see, Georgia O'Keeffe was a special, different and talented woman, who had the courage to follow her vocation and had a very interesting life!