This photo is the same as on
http://365project.org/jerome/365/2016-09-17 , but a bit darker and with warmer tones. I think it is better.
This is a work inspired by "artist challenge - Giorgio Morandi" (
http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/28427/artist-challenge-giorgio-morandi).
A few words about my approach:
Morandi painted bottles, dishes, bowls, jugs and vases, which he collected in his studio. I think that the nucleus of his art are less the objects, but rather how he painted them: carefully arranged, with very subtle tones and delicate contrasts - in a pictorial language beyond the bare image of reality.
He painted silent pictures, they eminate a classic calmness and harmony as we can see in the works of the old masters. I tried this way of dealing with forms and tonal with packages and a box - also things of daily use and simple shapes. They are in my workshop and I store nails and screws in it.
Morandi examined in detail the pictures of the great masters. What he discovered, he interpreted in a very personal way. I think that this is an important part of education and culture in general: to recognize timeless and universal structures and make them available for me, to reinterpret - for the here and now.
Nothing in Morandi's images is isolated, unconnected with the rest. Everything is emraced by a common tender breath. Therein (in my feeling) the essence lies in Morandi's art. I intended such a designed unity in which every single form has its place and its importance in a larger whole. You may judge how far I succeeded.
For me Morandi is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His pictures have no dramatic objects which immediately catch the eye. Perhaps therefore he is less known. The sensations in his pictures are elsewhere. I love the soft and delicate tones in his works of art, his handling of light and dark, creating relations between shapes, lines, directions and sensitive contrasts.
very well done, and i am proud to be one of your fans. :-)
Thank you all for your nice comments! Your opinions and critiques really mean a lot to me.
I think it is good to summarize the thoughts and emotions about the own work into words every now and then. As a result, it clarifies one's approach and procedure. Furthermore, communicating with images will be complemented and expanded by words. The possibilities of exchange and encounter prosper. I think this is important: encounter as inspiration and human enrichment.
Color, shape, light-dark, line, directions, gestures, expression, relations,... all that concerns me, when I look at images and in particular look at images of art. And in art - so my view - always a dialectic speaks to us: the personal, individual and unique embedded in a general, the personal exceeding, the human and ultimately life itself.
I remain a seeker and I know that I also fail in my work. The failure and the error are part of the human. Sometimes I achieve more, sometimes less. My skills are limited.
The doubt, the questions remain.
Excuse my inelegant English. I hesitate to express myself with words in this forum. The shortcomings in my English restrict me a lot.
@helenhall Thanks for your approving words!
I am never satisfied with my work, always change and hope that it gets better. I appreciate how sharp and sensitive you focus your viewing. How beautiful you always express this into words.
@summerfield Thank you for your nice resonance!
It touches me still very much, what love and unique people are in this forum.
Thanks for your so kind words! So nice... :)
@overalvandaan
Thank you for your nice comment! I think this is something we humans yearn for: a tender embrace - emotionally, mentally, physically.
@hrs
Thank you for your kind comment!
I totally agree with you. Small changes can make a big difference. Just like you I'm always surprised, what a little nuance may cause in an image. However, this does not make the matter any easier...
Thank you very much for your nice comments!
Thank you, Erika!