Morandi’s Dust

[image_with_animation image_url=”9424″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] My last V. Note focused on Cezanne’s Objects, a series of photographs from Joel Meyerowitz, a street photographer who documented still life objects of Cezanne and Morandi. I posted Cezanne’s earlier, so today I’ll post his photographs of Morandi’s objects.

In the photographs taken in Morandi’s studio, the photographer sat in the exact same place, looking at the objects in the exact same light as the painter would have. You can see the marks drawn on the table, so Morandi knew where to set the positions of his subjects. In the background is the same paper that Morandi left on the wall, now brittle and yellow with age. You can also see the dust. Preferring muted colors, Morandi was insistent that the bottles and jars in his studio never be dusted.

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” load_in_animation=”none I thought “Morandi’s Dust” made a nice title for this post. Evidently I was not the first to think of it. There is also a documentary with the same name. I haven’t watched it, but if you do, please let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PJJSJQp7KQ