Georgia O'Keeffe's 1927 painting Oriental Poppies shows poppies. The work presents two enormous red-orange blossoms against a dark background, using close-up scale to make the flowers fill most of the composition.
O'Keeffe became renowned for enlarging flowers far beyond their natural size. She explained that people often overlooked flowers because they were small, so she decided to paint them large enough that viewers could not ignore their visual structure.
Oriental Poppies belongs to the period when flower paintings became central to O'Keeffe's public reputation. The paintings were frequently interpreted through assumptions about sexuality, while O'Keeffe objected to critics imposing meanings on her work that she had not intended.