Visual Notes: Morandi and the Physicality of Paint

                            











Assignment 
Process ONE:  
Think about an artist whose paintings really move you - you may like them a whole lot, you may question them a whole lot, you may dislike them a whole lot.

Do some biographical research including:
1. Name
2. Date birth and death dates
3. Geographical location
4. The style the artist's work fits into
5. Add one interesting fact about the artist or their work
6. Add one URL to an interesting essay you wish your colleagues to read. 
7. Place URL in your sketchbook, add comments to the essay's narrative and date.

Select 3 paintings from this artist that has common subject matter throughout to deconstruct in a PPT to the class as a whole

Process TWO:
1. In your PPT, place the details of the painting on each slide
2. Place the biographical information
3. Place one fact you found interesting
4. Place the link to a URL of an article you want your colleagues to read and comment in their sketchbook

Painting Deconstruction includes:
5.. Speak about the paint handling throughout the 3 works

6. Speak about the emotional quality of the works overall

7. In one work, speak about the following:
i. The palette overall
ii. Intensity of the hue
iii. Light and shadow / directional light
iv. Texture overall
v. Composition of the work 



Frank Auerbach b. 1931
- Born in Berlin, Germany naturalized to Britain
- Some people fit his figurative work into Expressionism, but he does not feel he is an expressionist painter. 
- He paints his figures over and over again to become familiar with his subject. 

Interesting Fact:
David Bowie bought and owned Auerbach's Head of Gerda Boehm as part of his private collection.  After Bowie's death in 2016, this piece was among many put up for auction in November 2016.  It sold for £3.8 million (US$4.7 million)

URL to an essay you wish your colleagues to read:
Frank Auerbach: A painter's painter of Horror and Joy

Include the URL and your comments of what you gleaned from the article.


Portrait of E.O.W.I.
1960
oil on wood
Tate Museum
Head of E.O.W.I




Please read: Royal Academy article on Frank Auerbach & Alberto Giacometti





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