[image_with_animation image_url=”9378″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Preparing for my mini workshop “Paint like Cezanne,” I ran across this work by Joel Meyerowitz, a photographer who documented still life objects of famous painters, particularly Cezanne and Morandi. Meyerowitz’ photographs are handsome recordings of plain yet interesting objects. Unlike the painters who assemble compositions, Meyerowitz framed each of the objects individually as if they were little portraits. Here are some of Meyerowitz’s photographs of Cezanne’s still life objects, from Meyerowitz’s book, including a beautiful shot of Cezanne’s studio (above).
See that studio wall color? I read it took Cezanne 5 weeks to find that perfect grey. Oh, it can be so difficult to be an artist. We’ll talk about wall color, and other extremely important issues of life as a painter, in my “How to Set Up Your Studio” class.
Later this week I’ll post Meyerowitz’s photographs of Morandi’s objects. I wonder how many times I can write Meyerowitz. (7)
Image credits: Joel Meyerowitz (8), and Hyperallergic
[image_with_animation image_url=”11410″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] From yesterday’s V.Note: “Though I thought I should give it a try, I really thought I wouldn’t like drypoint because every time I heard the word “drypoint” I heard nails on a chalkboard, and most of the prints labeled as “drypoints” seemed less rich and subtle than the etchings …
The most recent V. Notes post had some personal favorites from the many Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards submissions we received. One of the artworks featured yesterday piqued my interest, so I contacted the artist, and raided his website and Instagram for images. Akira Ohiso recently moved to Seattle from New York. He paints …
Most of the time when people draw something such as a still life, they draw the objects and then neglect everything around the objects, like the table holding it up, and the wall behind it. A drawing like this shows us a thing floating in nothing instead of an interaction of depth, volume, and surfaces …
If a painting is said to be realistic it’s usually said to be “photorealistic” and this is meant to be a compliment. While I think realism is a valid description of style, photorealism is something else to me completely. The first problem is that “photorealism” assumes that images from a camera are realistic, but cameras hardly ever capture …
Cezanne’s Objects
[image_with_animation image_url=”9378″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Preparing for my mini workshop “Paint like Cezanne,” I ran across this work by Joel Meyerowitz, a photographer who documented still life objects of famous painters, particularly Cezanne and Morandi. Meyerowitz’ photographs are handsome recordings of plain yet interesting objects. Unlike the painters who assemble compositions, Meyerowitz framed each of the objects individually as if they were little portraits. Here are some of Meyerowitz’s photographs of Cezanne’s still life objects, from Meyerowitz’s book, including a beautiful shot of Cezanne’s studio (above).
See that studio wall color? I read it took Cezanne 5 weeks to find that perfect grey. Oh, it can be so difficult to be an artist. We’ll talk about wall color, and other extremely important issues of life as a painter, in my “How to Set Up Your Studio” class.
Later this week I’ll post Meyerowitz’s photographs of Morandi’s objects. I wonder how many times I can write Meyerowitz. (7)
Image credits: Joel Meyerowitz (8), and Hyperallergic
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