Comments on: Giorgio Morandi – early work

By: David T. Henry

David T. Henry — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:05:10 +0000

I’m extremely fond of Morandi’s work. It is direct and to the point but,
I believe that the compositions were very well planned .
His work is painterly with delightfully soft colors much like Utrillo’s
‘white period’.

Another somewhat comparitive artist might be Milton Avery. Each of
these painters had innate sensitivity, individuality and genius.

Enough already of photorealism’s tour d’ force albiet the ability to
paint like a camera. I’m fond of Morandi -yes indeed!

David T. Henry

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:24:33 +0000

Birgit:

Could you give me your new e-mail address?

By: birgit

birgit — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:13:22 +0000

Duke,

“from vague to sharp focus’ and then finally to partial loss of boundaries in his very last pictures (http://artandperception.com/2008/12/giorgio-morandi-late-work.html).

What tragedy that Morandi died before, as his friend quoted him ‘how very much he still wanted to realize his new ideas with painting’. To let a particular object/subjet sink into the mind is an appealing way to create art.

By: Duke

Duke — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:51:39 +0000

“The painter of bottles” is Morandi’s legacy. From the micro to the macro, from vague to sharp focus, from the frivolous to the deeply meaninful, Art has explored every aspects of our lives and envirnoment. Morandi chose an introverted approach to life and art and maintained the discipline to be taken serious after awhile. Who would guess that some dusty bottles could keep an intelligent person attention? Morandi help expand our insight into our world and therefore the arts too.

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:15:09 +0000

D.,

Those are wonderful paintings! I liked the teacups series best.

I suspect this is an almost inevitable analogy that underlies our reactions to art and other things in our lives. Consciously or not, we extend our social way of understanding our world to the non-people in it also. Any child psychologists in the room?

By: D.

D. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:02:11 +0000

Steve,
One of my favorite painters speaks similarly of his teacups:
http://www.tedjulianarnold.com

By: Steve Durbin

Steve Durbin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:51:35 +0000

Just adding a note for this and later Morandi posts. Joanne Mattera recently interviewed art dealer Stephen Haller, who had made a piligrimage to visit Morandi in Italy in the Sixties. Haller tells a number of stories about Morandi. The most interesting comment echoed Fendrich's observation (see comment #1 above):

I remember thinking, ‘These bottles are not bottles; they’re people. They’re shoulder to shoulder and yet they’re not making any contact.’ At that time I didn’t have any formal background in art, so my response was visceral and emotional.