Visual Arts Studio 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Giorgio Morandi, Palette Knife, Gesso
22 Feb 2016
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Vas 1020 lecture: painting: giorgio morandi still-life painter, painting white objects, studio lab this week. Bring all painting supplies, including palette knives, gesso. Assignment on february 22 tab on owl: objective white object still-life objective. Observe successful square composition (painting part of still-life) Divide composition into half, vertically or horizontally. Paint objects correct size and proportion: dividing composition, realism one half with optical/perceptual colour, painted from life; realism technique other half painted with colour scheme/technique from one painting thumbnail creating equivocal space. Equivocal space ambiguous space and will flatten out (one is very depth-like the other is 2d) Important to include value, shadows and highlights, cast shadow. Blue linear perspective on the lines of the cloth. Brightness and brilliance of colour as you go from front to back. Technique like blending and then waiting for it to dry and overlapping: equivocal space.
