tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post5387452578536275863..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: Rural; urbanCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-6281921719031293502010-11-08T15:44:16.451-08:002010-11-08T15:44:16.451-08:00Charles:
I did a blog on Morandi here--
http://c...Charles:<br /><br />I did a blog on Morandi here--<br /><br />http://compassrosebooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/giorgio-morandi-nothing-is-more.html<br /><br />My impression of Morandi's life and work was of a monkish dedication to a limited set of principles, realized through a limited set of possible visual aparati. <br /><br />Take away his studio paraphernalia, the garden exterior, and the buildings within view of his front door, and there's almost nothing left. "Subject-matter" had almost nothing to do with his art. In fact, it would certainly have "gotten in the way" of his discipline. How could an individual face have communicated what he was after? <br /><br />Morandi's early work is like de Chirico, but he soon moved away from this doctrinaire surrealism, to a personal vision. Funnels, bottles trays, cans. Garden walls. It's all quite beautiful in its way, but it has nothing to do with what's being represented. It actually looks "suburban" to me, though Italy has never had what we Americans would consider "suburb" as such. I would give an ear to own an original Morando etching.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com