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Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most famous and influential artist there has been. Her works are very popular, beautiful, and unique. She is an American artist who is famous for her paintings of gigantic flowers, distinctive desert scenes, and some cityscapes. She looked to European modernism and abstraction to express inner consciousness rather than external experience. “Her paintings involve such economy of detail and such skillful distillation of her subject, that, however naturalistically precise, they somehow become works of abstraction.” (H.H. Arnason 381) Georgia O’Keeffe once stated that “Most people in the city rush around so they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” All of her work is said to correspond to and represent different times of her life. Dark Abstraction made in 1924 is an oil on canvas painting made by Georgia O’Keeffe. The size is approximately 2 feet by 2 ½ feet. The oil painting is two dimensional and enclosed in a plain stainless steel frame. O’Keeffe was known for creating highly personal nature paintings that expressed beauty and emotion through the use of color, lines, form, and pattern. This painting is an enlarged image,