O’Keeffe comes through Stieglitz and his network in contact with the European Avantgarde, sees the works and ideas of a Picasso, Kandinsky, Matisse, Rodin and others. She is well aware of the scandalized but also unstoppable development of painting towards ABSTRACTION. At the same time, O’Keeffe seems to be relatively unimpressed by it, as she pursues her very own color and formal POETRY, including a partial abstraction, very early on.