{"id":585,"date":"2011-09-29T00:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=585"},"modified":"2011-09-29T01:03:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T01:03:03","slug":"influences-cezanne-on-morandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Influences (Cezanne on Morandi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_588\" style=\"width: 775px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P9274592reduced1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-588\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-588\" title=\"P9274592reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P9274592reduced1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P9274592reduced1.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P9274592reduced1-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/P9274592reduced1-326x300.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgio Morandi - Landscape - 1940 - 48 x 53 cm - 19 x 21 in - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a great example of how a notable painter permits himself to absorb the considerations of other artists without loosing his own unique approach. \u00a0 We can feel the influence of Cezanne but this painting is a Morandi.<\/p>\n<p>The sense of volume and space is wonderful. \u00a0 He achieves this with shapes and values, as well as colour.\u00a0 I will focus on shapes and integration.<\/p>\n<p>The painting is held together by a large shape in the central area, which integrates the buildings and the foliage beautifully.\u00a0 (It may help if you blur your vision slightly.)<\/p>\n<p>The roof line of the building at the left defines the top of the shape.\u00a0 It&#8217;s right edge runs down through the other building, continuing to it&#8217;s bottom edge, which parallels the top of the shape.\u00a0 Remember the shapes are not meant to be obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Morandi also has provided a wonderful spatial plane at the bottom right.\u00a0 This is created by the vertical trunk of a tree and a dark horizontal line to the right.\u00a0 Can you see the rectangle?\u00a0 The rectangle not only provides structure but is also a plane which seems to come forth.<\/p>\n<p>I also would like to point out the two parallel branches on the tree.\u00a0 They parallel the roof line above.\u00a0 Superb parallel rhythm and structure!<\/p>\n<p>Morandi understood Cezanne.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great example of how a notable painter permits himself to absorb the considerations of other artists without loosing his own unique approach. \u00a0 We can feel the influence of Cezanne but this painting is a Morandi. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3,10,15,4,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}