Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2008. / Vita. Advisor : Hervé Vanel. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 429-442).

La insistencia de Giorgio Morandi (Bolonia 1910-1964) en unos escasos temas a lo largo de toda su vida y su apuesta por una pintura puramente visual son los dos principios básicos que caracterizan su obra en un contexto histórico y cultural convulso. En este sentido, la consolidación y la fecundidad de su trabajo en serie tras la Segunda guerra mundial aconseja que nos detengamos en este periodo. La conveniencia de ordenar sus series y agrupar los cuadros de un mismo motivo, prevalece. Analizar los procesos formales que subyacen a cada grupo, reconocer sus semejanzas y sus diferencias, así como contrastar unas series con otras, nos permite profundizar en la naturaleza de su obra al mismo tiempo que reconocer las particularidades de cada cuadro. Del mismo modo, la representación, la abstracción o la experimentación son algunos de los conceptos que estudiamos a propósito del pintor y que nos ayudan, no solo a interpretar su obra sino a reflexionar sobre la pintura moderna. Y, sobre todo, a reconocer en Morandi un referente sólido e imprescindible al que remitirnos hoy. / Aguilar Alonso, R. (2014). MORANDI. LA SERIE COMO TEMA PICTÓRICO (1946 -1964) [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/38707 / TESIS

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-17T15:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-06-25. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-09-17T15:45:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000847641.pdf: 11062823 bytes, checksum: 2c14766790544180356dca576203b59f (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Resumo Esta pesquisa constitui-se de duas partes complementares: a primeira apresenta um relato do processo de criação das pinturas que desenvolvi entre os anos de 2013 e 2015, as quais são exibidas aqui. Desse relato se originam as ideias-chaves que compõem a trama teórica apresentada nos capítulos seguintes, cujo objetivo consiste em expor as reflexões oriundas da prática, relacionando-as com o pensamento de autores e artistas afins. O eixo central desta dissertação gira em torno da questão do olhar, posto que as pinturas por mim elaboradas utilizam referências visuais para sua criação. Nesse sentido, a observação das coisas que existem ao redor levou à constatação de que não sou visível para mim mesma e, partindo dessa premissa, são analisadas questões como a necessidade da percepção visual de si, por meio da investigação da pintura de autorretrato e da autocontemplação mediante o uso de instrumentos como espelho e fotografia, e a percepção visual do outro, tomando como foco o olhar que se direciona aos objetos que existem no interior da casa. É apresentada, ainda, análise acerca de dois artistas específicos: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin e Giorgio Morandi. As conclusões desta pesquisa,... / This research is constituted by two complimentary parts: the first one reports the creative process of the paintings produced by myself between 2013 and 2015, which are exhibited here. The key-concepts analyzed on the following chapters are originated from the report and aim to expose reflections derived from practice by establishing links with other authors and artists. The dissertation focuses on the act of seeing, since the paintings I produce require direct observation of visual references. In that sense, the act of looking at things around me led to the finding that I'm not visible to myself, and starting from this premise, the research investigates the necessity of visual perception of oneself, by analyzing self-portrait paintings and the usage of instruments that make us visible, such as the mirror and photograph, and the visual perception of others, by examining our relation with the objects that belong to the interior of a home. It is also presented an investigation of two artists: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin and Giorgio Morandi. The research conclusions, in accordance with Silvio Zamboni conceptions, are contained in the produced paintings.

In dieser Dissertation werden 13 wichtige Werke Giorgio de Chiricos (1888 Volos, Griechenland – 1978 Rom), Filippo de Pisis’ (1896 Ferrara – 1956 Mailand) und Giorgio Morandis (1890 Bologna – 1964 ebenda) eingehend beschrieben und analysiert. Als Ergebnis ergibt sich die zum Teil unerwartete Entdeckung, dass die „noch“ figurative, teilweise als rückgewandt angesehene Kunst der drei untersuchten Künstler eine moderne, immer noch aktuelle Frage nach der besonderen Qualität des Bildes stellt. Ihre Skepsis gegenüber einer festgelegten Art der Wahrnehmung entfaltet sich in einer produktiven Auseinandersetzung mit den Bildern und mit einer Gattung – das Stillleben - einer tradierten Kunsttradition und zeigt Kunst in ihrer Fähigkeit ein besonderes, anderes Sehen anzuregen. Dabei zeigt sich in der Analyse der Bilder die unzertrennliche Beziehung von Sichtbarkeit und Unsichtbarkeit als einen zentralen Moment in der künstleri-schen Produktion. Diese Thematik wird unter anderem in der Verbindung de Chiricos, de Pisis’ und Morandis zu den Schriften Arthur Schopenhauers, Friedrich Nietzsches und Giacomo Leopardis erörtert und speziell mit der Auflösung des klassischen Realitätsbegriffs konfrontiert. Die aus dieser Auflösung resultierende „Krise der Repräsentation“ hat auch die Kunst der Moderne veranlasst, sich kritisch mit dem „Realen“ auseinanderzusetzen und nach neuen Formen der Darstellung, aber auch der Betrachtung zu suchen. Wesentlich ist dabei der Gesichtspunkt, dass die bewusste Reflexion des Sehens und des Wahrnehmens selbst zum Bild werden. Dieser Aspekt wird mithilfe einer phänomenologischen Perspektive und Fragestellung weiter ausgeführt und diskutiert. Der Fokus und die Struktur dieser Dissertation liegen in der konkreten und direkten Auseinandersetzung mit den Werken der drei bildenden Künstler aus denen auch der begriffliche Horizont der Arbeit immanent erschlossen wird. / This study describes and analyses in detail a total of 13 important works by the Italian painters Giorgio de Chirico (1888 Volos, Greece – 1978 Rome), Filippo de Pisis (1896 Ferrara – 1956 Milan) and Giorgio Morandi (1890 Bologna – 1964 Bologna). Its findings include the partially unexpected discovery that the “yet-figurative” aesthetics of these works, which may be valued as backward and even reactionary raise a very modern and relevant question about the special quality of pictures. The works’ scepticism of a fixed kind of perception also emerges in their productive confrontation with canonical, more traditional pictures and in their affirmation of art’s ability to encourage a special, “other” way of seeing. The argument of this study is based on the investigation of the unavoidable relationship between visibility and invisibility as a central moment in de Chirico’s, de Pisis’ and Morandi’s artistic production, and proposes a dialogue with the theories of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Giacomo Leopardi, whose influence on the tree painters was of great importance, especially in conjunction with the dissolution of classic concepts of reality. The crisis of representation resulting from this dissolution led in the visual arts to a critical confrontation with the concept of the “Real”. As a consequence of this confrontation news forms of representation and observation emerged. Essential to this transformation is that conscious reflexions about sight and perception became themselves the subjects and objects of pictures. This aspect is also considered from the perspective of phenomenology and its tools of enquiry. The dissertation’s focus and structure derive from the direct confrontation with the pictures, which also informs its conceptual horizon.

Il s'agit d'une thèse visant à définir un artefact singulier issu de la création plastique : l'objet pictural réel. A près avoir circonscrit, dans une première partie, sa recherche théorique autour d'un objet de culture relevant des problématiques de l'art pictural figuratif moderne, et après avoir défini les concepts et enjeux qui s'y rapportent, l'auteur développe deux autres parties distinctes. La première renvoie à l'artefact artistique et vise à décrire les pratiques de création des artistes de la référence : Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Bonnard et George Segal. La seconde concerne la dimension esthétique de l'artefact et s'appuie sur l'analyse critique d'œuvres. Tout le propos de l'auteur tend à rendre appréhendables les caractéristiques poïétiques et esthétiques de l'objet pictural réel dont la particularité est d'invariablement mettre du jeu dans le regard du spectateur, l'obligeant à reconsidérer ses habitudes de perception, sa façon d'appréhender l'œuvre picturale.

Il s'agit d'une thèse visant à définir un artefact singulier issu de la création plastique : l'objet pictural réel. A près avoir circonscrit, dans une première partie, sa recherche théorique autour d'un objet de culture relevant des problématiques de l'art pictural figuratif moderne, et après avoir défini les concepts et enjeux qui s'y rapportent, l'auteur développe deux autres parties distinctes. La première renvoie à l'artefact artistique et vise à décrire les pratiques de création des artistes de la référence : Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Bonnard et George Segal. La seconde concerne la dimension esthétique de l'artefact et s'appuie sur l'analyse critique d’œuvres. Tout le propos de l'auteur tend à rendre appréhendables les caractéristiques poïétiques et esthétiques de l'objet pictural réel dont la particularité est d'invariablement mettre du jeu dans le regard du spectateur, l'obligeant à reconsidérer ses habitudes de perception, sa façon d'appréhender l’œuvre picturale. / This thesis aims at defining a remarkable artefact resulting from plastic creation : the real pictorial object. In the first part, the author has centred his theoretical research around an objetc of culture coming under the problematics of modern figurative pictorial art ; then, he parts. The first one refers to the artistic artefact, and aims at describing the artistic creation practice of the referred to artists : Giorgio Morandi, Pierre Bonnard and George Segal. The second part deals with the aesthetic aspect of artefact, and uses the critical analysis of works of art. The author intends to help the viewer's mind to apprehend the poïetic and aesthetic characteristics of the real pictorial object whose particularity is to invariably set the viewer's eye, leading him to reconsider his habits of perception, the way he apprehends the pictorial work.

[pt] A tese Giorgio Morandi e o respeito pelas coisas de uso, retoma a produção artística de Giorgio Morandi 1890-1964, um dos mais importantes artistas italianos do século XX, para restabelecer dentro do período de formação do Modernismo suas relações com a produção cultural europeia coetânea. A tese busca mostrar como a obra de Morandi se apresenta como uma alternativa à interpretação artística hegemônica feita pelo Cubismo da obra de Cézanne, privilegiando aspectos dessa poética que foram relegados a segundo plano por Picasso e Braque, notadamente a percepção de um espaço em profundidade corporalmente determinado, porém conjuminando essa espacialização com a linguagem planar estabelecida pelos cubistas. Procuramos mostrar que as buscas de Morandi não tinham afinidades somente no campo das artes, mas como a produção de sua obra e as questões por ela elaboradas, particularmente como o entendimento plástico das coisas e utensílios que lhe servem como motivo para suas naturezas–mortas estão em sintonia com o conceito de coisa e coisidade tratado pxsor Heidegger em A origem da obra de arte e O que é uma coisa?, ambos os textos escritos em 1935. As indagações artísticas de Morandi, de modo mais amplo, têm profundas afinidades com o método fenomenológico de Husserl, Heidegger e Merleau-Ponty. / [en] The dissertation Morandi and the Respect for Things of Use reexamines the artistic production of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century, in order to reestablish, within the time frame of the development of Modernism, his connections with contemporaneous European cultural production. The dissertation shows the ways in which Morandi s work presents itself as an alternative to Cubism s hegemonic artistic interpretation of Cézanne s work, favoring aspects of Cèzanne s poetics that Picasso and Braque relegated to the background – notably the perception of corporally determined depth of space – while at the same time uniting this spatialization with the language of flatness established by the Cubists. The dissertation seeks to demonstrate that Morandi s investigations had affinities not only in the arts, but that the production of his body of work and the questions it raised – in particular the visual understanding of things and utensils that motivated his still-lifes – were in line with the concept of thing and thingness elaborated by Heidegger in The Origin of the Work of Art and What is a Thing? both written in 1935. Morandi s artistic inquiries, in a broad sense, have deep affinities with the phenomenological method of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.