Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts exhibit “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” is a visual thesaurus of natural talents. This imaginative presentation of more than 150 paintings and sculptures includes recreations of both artist’s studios as a predicate for a study in contrast,

The New Mexico work-space of O’Keeffe was warm, organized and serene.

Moore’s English Countryside creativity-zone was cool, organic and splattered

Although the contemporaries never met, their artistic expressions were fixed on the same timeline, thousands of miles apart, engaged in a conversation that resonates with nature.  Exploring their separate environments, the language of O’Keeffe and Moore was dialectically different yet, there’s an unexpected quality of sameness to their vastly different works. The syntax of O’Keeffe and Moore were original but in synch. Their organic tales of home riffed on their surroundings, nature’s permutations and abstractions that were, for these artists, universal.

In context, this exhibit resonates with a sureness of thesis. Inspired by scavenged bones and wood fragments, light and reverberating shadows; O’Keeffe and Moore shared a modern, kinetic dialogue. They celebrated inspirations that surrounded them.  Like their worlds their works are set in space but fluid in thought.

“Red Tree Yellow Sky” by O’Keeffe in dialogue  with Henry Moore’s “Working Model for Standing Figure, Knife Edge”

The Museum of Fine Arts welcomes guests to follow gallery twists and turns that reveal patterns and balance. Had the artists lived in the time of Instagram it would be reasonable to assume the two Creatives had been ‘influenced” by each other.

O’Keeffe painted vocabulary of vistas in Abiquiu in conversation with Moore’s interpretation of organic materials from the Hoglands outside London

Dying only 5 months apart in 1986,  Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore’s separate life-dissertations transcended a literal interpretation of the universe.They opted instead to see infinite possibilities in the abstract simplicity of the world.

Curators Erica Hirshler and Courtney Harris invite you to participate in the visual dialogue Georgia O’Keeffe shared with Henry Moore. The conversation will take you beyond the galleries of Huntington Ave into a space with scavenged bones, random wood fragments, bright horizons, shadowed canyons snd limitless ways to see your world.

This fresh-take exhibition speaks with the confident tones of transcendent art.

“Listen” to the artists,   Now – January, 20,2025

 

 

 

 


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