| home coloraday ARCHIVE 2010 apr days • color concept & theory widgets and apps mar days • red: a portrait of a artist rothko feb days • talking heads as figure/ground jan days • tanja's black light dance party ARCHIVE 2009 dec days • tootsie roll pop wrappers colors & flavors nov days • stephen vitiello's four color sound oct days • atmospheric perspective sept days • a rainbow of antioxidants colors aug days • floor stain colorants jul days • minimal colors jun days • wildflowers cataloged by color may days • tennis court colors apr days • morandi's neutral colors mar days • grid colorists feb days • black as film noir jan days • flood of toxic minerals used in paints ARCHIVE 2008 dec days • comple-mentary colors nov days • kettle korn packaging color change oct days • green fluorescent protein sept days • red palms - not green aug days • blue tunes jul days • “blue” - textile museum jun days • “fiesta- ware” colorants may days • “blue alchemy” hive gallery apr days • “sennelier” selecting watercolours for travel | | | | morandi's neutral colors Giorgio Morandi “Natura Morte” 1960 Oil on Canvas As an aficionado of Giorgio Morandi, I took the opportunity (many years ago) while traveling through Italy to visit the Museo Morandi in Bologna which has “sixty-two oil paintings, eighteen watercolours, ninety-two drawings, seventy-eight etchings, two sculptures and two engraved plates” Link to Museo Morandi |
| I am captivated by Morandi's still-lifes. His use of minimal values – close value tones, and his play of space: ambiguous placement of objects. here all the jars interconnect with the tabletop's back edge transforming the ordinary into a transcendent reality. Giorgio Morandi “Natura Morte” 1961 Oil on Canvas Private Collection Giorgio Morandi |
| | | | “Natura Morte” 1943 Oil on Canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Retrospective of Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964 at the Metropolitan Museum New York City: September 16, 2008 to December 14, 2008. Link to exhibit website. Article on Morandi in The New Yorker - The Art World Tables for One Giorgio Morandi's Still-lifes by Peter Schjeldahl September 22, 2008 Link to article Quote from above article: “His etchings amaze, triggering subliminal sensations of color with nothing but variations with crosshatched black lines.” |