Giorgio Morandi: Through Light and Shade - Part 1

Director Roberta Cremoncini presenting the Estorick Collection's past Morandi exhibitions in conversation with Paul Coldwell (Artist and Professor of Fine Art at University of the Arts, London) who has played an integral part in the development of our exhibitions dedicated to Giorgio Morandi.
This online talk took place on 22 April 2021 and it was the first of a two part series (Part 2: • Giorgio Morandi: Throu... )
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[@janeking9540]

I saw this 1999 exhibition, having never seen Morandi before. A great inspiration to me. A teacher and kindred spirit. He clearly had an eye for a sinuous shape and I love the idea of him spotting a object of interest in a bric a brac shop. He clearly wasn't interested in the material of the object, for example, wood or glass, but concerned with their form and their relationship with other objects, often simple cuboids as contrast, and of light and space. He would infact neutralise the objects, by painting them to knock them back to their pure form. It is clear that he was drawn to particular objects that often shared common characteristics, and which effortlessly harmonised with eachother, offering endless potential combinations, setting up infinite compositions, where objects and intervening space and shadow are equally importand. In the end the objects almost dematerialised, some being suggested by their absence alone.

[@lamodernista]

What is a 'metaphysical artist'?