{"id":1131,"date":"2012-08-16T06:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2012-08-18T02:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T02:04:39","slug":"morandi-seeking-the-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Morandi – (Seeking the Prime)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life - 1920 - 50 x 52 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life - 1958-oil - 36 x 41 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

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Morandi’s path is a wonderful study of searching for the essential through restriction of the subject matter.\u00a0 I admire his discipline and the sophistication of his mature work.<\/p>\n

Like most of us, his early work was focused on developing figurative skills.\u00a0 Now when he began conveying the essence of the subject matter is difficult to say and of course it happens over time and study.\u00a0 He was well educated in the wonderful considerations in modern painting, and connected to seeking the prime in things.<\/p>\n

Here we have two still life paintings thirty eight years apart, which clearly shows his evolution through reduction.\u00a0 Morandi’s focus in his 1920 Still Life (which has a Cezanne influence) was depiction.\u00a0 This is perfectly fine and time honoured.\u00a0 He has allowed some distortion but representing the objects is the intent.\u00a0 We take in the objects, we see but we don’t feel their relationships.<\/p>\n

In his 1958 painting his considerations are very different.\u00a0 We\u00a0 instantly connect or “feel”<\/em> the relationships of the objects.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 I’m not going to impose my analysis on you.\u00a0 I would rather you feel the painting, as I do, and permit yourself time to embrace Morandi’s sensitivity.\u00a0 What is important to know is that Morandi’s understood “primitivism” which is the connection to our prime.<\/p>\n

A very sophisticated consideration and I find It truly wonderful how the connection deepens each time I visit his mature paintings. .<\/p>\n

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