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morandi's ceramic influences

updated wed 26 mar 03

 

Steven Goldate on thu 20 mar 03


Hi All,

I am curently writing an article on Giorgio Morandi and his still life painitng of ceramic
objects. I'd be interetsed to hear if anyone knows of potters that have been inspired by
his work (other than the obvious Gwynn Hannsen-Piggot).

If anyone can give me any pointes, it would be much appreciated. Please reply (or CC)
directly to sgoldate@bigpond.net.au.

thanks,
Steven
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karen gringhuis on sun 23 mar 03


Steve -

I can't name specific names or work but it sometimes
seems like half the ceramics grad students in the
world site Morandi among their influences. How often
this shows up in their actual work is another
question.

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Karen Gringhuis
KG Pottery
Box 607 Alfred NY 14802

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Pat Southwood on mon 24 mar 03


Hallo,
Can I profess my ignorance once again.
Morandi? Who he?
Pat.
Working outside 'cos its warmer!

Elca Branman on tue 25 mar 03


Georgio Morandi is an Italian.oops, was an italian painter whose work
was very spare, concentrated on still lifes, many with bottles..very
quiet distilled cool paintings..explorations of composition and
form..very much an artist's painter, and never achieved great reknown,
altho his reputation increases yearly. Go to Google and use the image
format and check out his stuff.

Elca Branman,in Sarasota Florida
elcab1@juno.com
http://www.elcabranman.com

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Lee Love on wed 26 mar 03


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Goldate"

> I am curently writing an article on Giorgio Morandi and his still life
painitng of ceramic
> objects.

I'm inspired by Morandi. I find work like his and Milton Avery's
more satisfying than straight abstraction. I intend to study woodblock
printing next, using pottery and related themes as inspiration. Along with
Morandi and Avery, I am also inspired by Serizawa, a friend of Hamada and
Yanagi's. There is a large volume of his sketch notebooks at the local
library.

I always thought Morandi painted ceramic objects too. But actually,
his still life objects were painted glass bottles. I saw an art program here
in Japan on Morandi (lotsa art documentaries here in Japan.) There were both
photographs of his studio and video of his preserved studio, showing the painted
glass bottles he used.

Hope this helps.

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Lee Love
Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@hachiko.com
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