[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.
…Unless it’s very pretty that way. Here’s some snow for the Seattle Snowpocalypse survivors. This woodcut is made with black ink on long fiber board paper. Herschel Logan printed this in 1930. According to Logan, the image was taken from an early photograph. You may have noticed, you astute reader you, that the composition is …
Hopper is known for his oil paintings, but he also made etchings… Hopper was not initially successful as an artist, so he made ends meet with freelance illustration work… Frank Rehn gave Hopper his first solo show in 1924. Hopper was 42. The Seattle Art Museum expected to receive Chop Suey after the death of …
Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed Text from Stanford.edu: Throughout his long career, seminal California artist Richard Diebenkorn (Stanford BA ’49) always kept a sketchbook—a “portable studio,” as he called it—to capture his ideas. The books contain 1,045 drawings that span the artist’s career and represent the range of styles and subjects he explored—both gestural renderings …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7664″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Wang Tzu-Ting Draw the same thing, over and over, from multiple views. This can be done from observation, or imagination. Overlap your drawings. Add your drawing to this post on our Facebook page. (#salchallenge) The January Creative Challenge: 15 minutes, once a day, for 30 days.
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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