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| OHCC LIVING | OCTOBER 2023 | 31 Art Lovers A busload of Art Lovers Club members and guests enjoyed a very special exhibit at Balboa Park's San Diego Museum of Art which featured the art of Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore. Although they worked in different media, they both employed the use of open space in their designs, focusing on negative spaces as design. e exhibit was thoughtfully arranged by themes of bones, shells, flowers, figures and included life-sized reproductions of each of their studios. It's thrilling that SDMA acquired this exhibit for us to enjoy. Georgia O'Keeffe, was born November 15, 1887, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and died on March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was an American painter who was among the most influential figures in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural subjects, especially flowers, bones, small animal pelvises and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico. Henry Moore, born in Yorkshire, England, in 1898 is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures but he also made carvings, drawings, prints and designed textiles and tapestries. Inspired by the human body and natural forms, Moore oen created sculptures of a mother and child, reclining figures and abstract forms. Moore knew he wanted to be a sculptor from an early age, but reluctantly trained as a teacher before joining the army during World War I. In the 1920s, Moore focused on establishing his reputation as a sculptor. As seen in this exhibit of a replica of his studio, Moore made many maquettes of his work of which 90% remain as maquettes. A maquette is a small model of a larger piece of sculpture created to visualize how it might look in larger form. ey are used to test out shapes and proportions. Henry Moore worked from maquette to tabletop to full-sized sculptures. Georgia O'Keeffe oen painted disparate objects in juxtaposition. In New Mexico O'Keeffe produced numerous paintings of the area's distinctive natural and architectural forms. She continued to explore the abstract language she had identified as her own in the 1910s. Her increasing fascination with the inherently abstract character of the stark and barren hills of New Mexico led to a series of paintings that epitomize that abstraction. To learn more about the Art Lovers Club please visit our website, https://ohccartlovers.wixsite.com/art-lovers or call Susan Pick at 760-305-8907. ~ Rita Montjoy Perhaps, because the Clubhouse was closed for repairs, you may have missed checking out the photographs in the Art Studio. We encourage you to come and enjoy the beautiful work of the Photography Club, as a first-time visitor or as a return visitor, as we will be changing out the exhibit on Oct. 7. We are pleased to feature the work of Joe Ashby, Joan Comito, Paul Elsberry, Roger Eubanks, Chuck Fasilis, Diana Kaminsky, Jim and Jody McDonough, Ernie Pick, along with photos by Kathy and Mike ornton. ese world travelers share their photos with you from their visits to Paris, Rome, New Delhi, Kenya, Slovenia, and Italy along with beautiful blossoms from our local Carlsbad Gardens, plus a smoke-infused morning in Oceanside. Be sure to view the colorful moments of a beach scene on high definition aluminum. Also, we are fortunate to feature the large, dramatic oil painting of ocean waves behind the Clubhouse reception desk by Bruce Taylor. Really beautiful and amazing detail! Please contact Judy Harris or Lainy Vinikow if you'd like to display your artistic talents to the OHCC community in our Clubhouse Art Studio. ~ Judy Harris & Lainy Vinikow Art Studio Classes are on Tuesdays 12:30 to 3 pm and on ursdays 10 am to 12:30 pm. For info, email me at jo.linda.marr@gmail.com. stained Glass