The Art of Georgia O’Keeffe

Today we went to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Wow what a fabulous place! We were lucky to be in town for a blockbuster exhibition on the modernist art of American Georgia O’Keeffe (1887– 1986) and Englishman Henry Moore (1898-1986). Although the exhibition was predicated on the idea that these two artists were pursuing similar methodologies, ideas and themes, this footprint will concentrate on her art.

O’Keeffe was a modernist painter often called the “Mother of American Modernism”. She lived for many years in the desert lands of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. She was interested in natural forms and found objects, especially rocks, shells, flowers and bones. Often the space between or inside things, as much as the things themselves, was shown as meaningful for reflecting on the correspondences with human experience. I just love her flower paintings. At the heart of her paintings of flowers are qualities of elegance, grace, beauty, and vibrant colour. We are brought into her deep looking at flowers through her art.Read more