Mild Summer Days

I hope I haven't brought the mild days to an end by being happy about them!

It is that time of the year when we have had Christmas and New Year holidays, it is the summer holidays, Australia Day is coming up, the tennis and cricket are on and you lose track of the time.
And a lot of your friends are away.

It is the time when you think you are going to be creative, get stuck into things, and you don't.

So today, feeling a bit not-knowing-what-to-do, I went to Heide Museum of Modern Art, to see the exhibition there. We went to see the O'Keefe, Preston and Cossington-Smith: Making Modernism exhibition.
It was just what I needed - inspiring.

I took the camera along in 'just in case' we were allowed to take pictures but, of course, we weren't.

So I took a couple of consolation photos out in the gardens. It is a lovely spot, full of sculptures, people having a wonderful day, a vegetable and herb garden and just lovely surrounds.

Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition

My friend took me to the Whitney Museum of Art and we saw an exhibition of Georgia O'Keeffe's work. There was some beautiful work there.
There was some of her early work in charcoal, moving to oil paintings and watercolours. It made us reflect about what it is that someone sees in an artist's work that makes it obvious that the artist is talented and should be encouraged. Perhaps there are many artists out there who just do not receive the boost at quite the right time and whose development is not encouraged as hers was. Or perhaps those with the drive and talent will shine no matter what.
One thing that stood out for me was the series that moved from fairly realistic images to much more abstract ones, of the same subject matter.
It was very crowded! But we were able to move around easily and see the works clearly. I especially liked her work of flowers.
It is interesting to read about her innovation of cropping an image, inspired by photographic work. These days images of this sort are often seen and it is enlightening to see something that was so innovative in its time.
We decided not to look at any of the other exhibitions at the Whitney as we just wanted to contemplate the works of Georgia O'Keeffe, not be distracted by other artists' work.