Jon and I had a couple of hours to visit the Fine Arts Museum in Boston before seeing the Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore exhibit.
When Jon needed to rest, he’d find a seat in front of a painting and I’d roam around. I didn’t get the titles or the names of most of the pieces that I liked, but I did take pictures.
Here are some of them…
This piece was in the exhibit Power of the People: Art and Democracy. So simple and powerful and timely.
This piece and the next few were from an exhibit called Tender Loving Care. That red patch on the bottom of the quilt says just that.
I loved everything about this sculpture. The materials, the color, the weaving. I see in it a gorgeous independent vulva.
A magic dancing branch and loving witches broom.
And from the Impressionists and Beyond Gallery, a detail of a Cezanne still-life. It is his painting of fruit that I’m most drawn to. Each apple, orange or lemon is a painting in itself. I could stare at them forever, sucked in by all the colors and how they blend and meet and move around each other.
The bag reminds me of the bags my neighbor use to make from milk pouches back in the 80s. I never thought of them as art and our neighbor just used them as utilitarian objects they were meant to be. Museums are good for opening ones eyes.
Yes, KJ it’s the same. This was not made by and artist. There was no name attached to it. It’s like a folk song that can’t be traced back to the first person to see it. The bags your neighbor made sound really interesting!