In
discussing the paintings of Morandi, Robert Irwin made the following
observations:
1. Concerning
the ’interpretation between figure and ground’
’In Morandi
they were never really separate. in fact, even with the figurative elements
there were cases where his ground actually got in front of the figures or in
many cases couched them so intimately that there was no separating the two. Physically
he carved a space for each one of these elements where the amount of space left
by the so-called ground was exactly that which the object occupied, so that it
was as if the air had taken on substance…..’
continued on John's page
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