She was known cheifly because of her paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representaion in painting of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. They all have crisp contoured forms the replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colours.
She often transforms her subject matter nto powerful abstract matter.
She used many different forms of art including painting and charcoal to make beautiful pictures of flowers and people, which can be described as sentuous, abstract and easy on the eye.
Since 8th grade, O'Keeffe knew she wanted to be an artist.
"...I am going to be an artist"--"I don't really know where I got the artist idea...I only know that by the time it was difinately settled in my mind." She said.
In 1905 she enrolled for the School of the Art of Chicago.
She had many exhibitions in New York and becam
e very successful.
