Henry Moore and Georgia O'Keefe Exhibition in Montreal

Entrance to the Moore/O'Keefe exhibition

                

The Montreal Museum of Fine Art is one of the reasons Montreal is a great city. it's also one of the things I love about this city. The Museum was founded in 1860; it was originally located on Philip's Square and was a part of the Art Association of Montreal. The current exhibition is Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, Giants of Modern Art; here are some photographs taken on 21 April when we visited the Museum to see this excellent exhibition.                 

Norval Morrisseau at the new wing of the MMFA

Norval Morrisseau is an artist who interests me; he is a visionary and shamanistic artist. 

Other photos: here we are at the new wing of the MMFA:

 

Herbert Read on art

"Sailboats off Kitsilano" by Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung at the Art Gallery of Vancouver, 1993

Herbert Read writes:

Tolstoy's famous definition of the process of art is expressed in these words: 'To evoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movement, lines, colours, sounds, or forms expressed in words so to transmit that feeling that others experience the same feeling -- this is the activity of art.

'Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them.'

Herbert Read, The Meaning of Art, Pelican Books, London, 1950, pages 185 - 186.