[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
How did it happen that all of our drawings and paintings are in rectangles? In my online figure drawing class last Sunday, I showed drawings by Matisse, Modigliani, and the very Matisse-like Pierre Boncompain. I talked about positioning the figure within the rectangle, thinking about how the shape of the figure and the shape of …
This is a man who became an artist because he missed a train. He was walking in a Manchester suburb, and as he took in the scene he was overcome by an urge to paint it. He then decided to become an artist. “I don’t know why I paint these scenes, I just paint them.” What …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7755″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Madelaine Mimi Torchia Boothby (League artist), 2017 What did you do yesterday? Draw, collage, paint, print…. make us a picture to tell us about your day. Share your sketches to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) We also had some great inkblots posted yesterday. While you’re there, check them out, and tell …
Today is the first part of a two part drawing. You can catch up tomorrow if you miss today, but don’t throw out your drawing for today! Thursday is Vocabulary day, and the word is sesquipedalian. The rare time this unusual word is introduced into conversation, it is to describe someone or something that overuses …
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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