More on Morandi

Yesterday’s post elicited some really top-class comments and sent me off on a whole lot more exploration of the work of Giorgio Morandi. I wanted to thank all of you who took the time to hunt down quotes and links, and I thought it’d be nice to share them here with everyone, so here goes:

**Andrea sent a link to an article in the New Yorker, and also found this description, which made me wonder if Morandi’s work was there to inspire beautiful writing:

“Color works hard in Morandi. His hues tend toward muddy pastels, always warm. He employs an unabridged dictionary of browns. Even his blues and greens usually secrete invisibly admixed red or yellow, insuring the projection of “an extraordinary set of grays far into the gallery” which Celmins noted. The colors are muted like voices lowered so as not to disturb a sleeper; but their melody and tone penetrate. A Morandi grabs your eye at any distance. Moreover, it’s the same picture at any distance, as resolved and unresolved near at hand as far away. (His comprehension of art history skips the Baroque and every other type of synthesized illusion.) Morandi has never been a popular artist and never will be. He engages the world one solitary viewer at a time. The experience of his work is unsharable even, in a way, with oneself, like a word remembered but not remembered, on the tip of the tongue.”

**Then Jessica sent a link to jewellery artist David Neale’s blog, where he’d been writing about Morandi too. It’s a beautiful blog with amazing work.

**Novi told me about a book she’d discovered on Morandi, and it sounds like one worth having. Check it out on Amazon here.

And, most recently,

**Flowerpress linked to her favourite Morandi in her local gallery (seen at the top of this post.

Thanks again to all of you for taking the time to write such thoughful comments – I appreciate it enormously. xx