[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.
I’ve been talking about the the idea that shapes in a composition can be activated to hold each other in place. In this way, there is no background and no object, there is only the interaction of shapes on the surface of the canvas. Everything in the picture holds everything else in place. Intervals I’d …
Humans are wired to see faces, even in inanimate objects. It’s called Pareidolia. Pareidolia is the tendency for seeing faces in inanimate objects like the moon, clouds, ink blots, or abstract patterns. Pareidolia used to be considered a symptom of human psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency. We are so …
Yesterday I posted drawings by Stanley Lewis. Lewis was one of the influences listed by Charity Baker at the New York Studio School. Looking through Lewis’ art and writing, I found an interview on Painting Perceptions that talked about his methods, and his influences: “[Painting from perception] often feels like a horribly impossible thing to …
An atelier is a snobby word for an artist’s workshop space. The word studio is from the Italian: studio, and from Latin: studium, from studere, meaning to study or zeal. The word atelier is French for workshop, especially the workroom or studio of a sculptor or painter, 1840, from French atelier, going back to the Old French astelier which was a carpenter’s workshop, woodpile …
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.
[image_with_animation image_url=”9426″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
http://www.lapolveredimorandi.com/eng/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PJJSJQp7KQ
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