isolateherself from a growing, modernizing country where every mark she put on papersupposedly represented the whole of the female gender. She sought to escape thecriticism and pressure of the city, and to create artwork freely, with no limits orboundaries. O’Keeffe never aligned herself with any particular movement, such as thecubists, surrealists, or expressionists. She simply painted what she saw, and the beauty ofher reality existed in its perfect state in her own mind. ...
