Nothing But Good: Pedro Chorão / Giorgio Morandi

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Pedro Chorão / Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi

Still Life

1956

oil on canvas

Yale University Art Gallery

Painting

Sometimes you feel like painting, but you don’t know exactly what. Then, just when you least expect it, the idea comes to you from somewhere. It’s an idea that comes in colours, and so you set about painting.

Almost immediately, problems start arising and you stop. And then another idea occurs to you that seems even more important than the previous one, and so you carry on, with the same passion as always, until one day you walk into your studio and, lo and behold, the painting is already finished. That’s the way it is. So, you take that canvas away and put another one in its place.

And then you start all over again.

Along the last 40 years I mainly appreciated and felt somehow close to half a dozen painters, including Jasper Johns, Morandi and Guston. Certainly these are the painters I would choose to take to a deserted island. I'm showing some of my paintings here which I think may have a relation to Morandi's work.

Pedro Chorão, 2015