Ten Keys to Better Scores on the TOEFL® iBT This section presents the "secrets" of being a good test-taker: arranging your preparation time, using the process of elimination to make the best guess on multiple-choice items, coping with test anxiety, pacing yourself during the test, and other important techniques. | Lesson 8 Completing Summaries and Charts 165 more in a day than anyone else can do in a week. After graduating from high school O Keeffe attended classes at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Arts Student League in New York City. Discouraged with her progress as an artist O Keeffe did not return to the League in the fall of 1908 but moved to Chicago and found work as a commercial artist. During this period Georgia did not pick up a brush and said that the smell of turpentine made her sick. In 1912 a friend wrote her that a position as an art teacher was open at a college in Texas. She applied and was accepted. Her paintings were first exhibited in 1919 at 291 an experimental art gallery in New York City owned by the photographer and art critic Alfred Stieglitz. The gallery was frequented by some of the most influential artists of the time. Not long after this O Keeffe gave up her teaching job and devoted herself entirely to painting. Stieglitz helped O Keeffe to find buyers for her paintings and galleries that would exhibit her art. They married in 1924. Early in her career O Keeffe developed a highly personal highly refined style. Her early paintings were mostly abstract designs. In the 1920 s she produced enigmatic close-up pictures of flowers and precise cityscapes of New York City. Whether painting mysterious flowers or austere buildings she captured their beauty by magnifying their shapes and simplifying their details. O Keeffe s style of painting and in fact her whole life changed dramatically during a visit to New Mexico in 1929. She was enchanted by the bright southwestern sunlight the ancient Spanish architecture the Native American culture and the blanched bones of cattle in the desert. She then adopted her characteristic style. Thereafter she most often painted desert landscapes often with the whitened skull of a longhorn in the foreground. She used vivid colors that as one critic put it shock the senses. O Keeffe affectionately referred to northern .
