[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.
” 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.
1914-1955 Nicolas de Staël was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. After suffering from depression, in the wake of a disappointing meeting with a disparaging art critic on March 16, 1955 he committed …
This is day 5 of our 30 day creative challenge! To learn more about this 30SAL challenge, click here. Today’s challenge is to create something inspired by the word cacoethes. Media is artist’s choice. Can be pencil, digital collage, or assemblage live alligators. Cacoethes noun: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. (kak-oh/uh-WEE-theez) Share your drawing …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10475″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Lucy Garnett These figure drawings were made in the last couple of sessions of my 5 week Beginning Figure Drawing Class. They are drawn with confidence, style, and sensitivity. Each week we practiced a different style of drawing, and a different way of approaching the figure. One style was …
I posted recently about how originality is not really what we’re built for. You can read that post here. After saying how natural copying is, I thought I should follow up with some conversations about copyright issues. Typically these conversations go straight to talking about the legal system. I personally find the artistic, personal, and moral …
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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PJJSJQp7KQ
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