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Non Finito
// Gurney Journey
Artists have left works unfinished inadvertently because time, the weather, or death called them away. Such partially completed works often provide insights as to how they were executed.
The non finito (literally "not finished") style is different, because the artist deliberately leaves parts of the piece uncompleted.
Michelangelo (left) and Donatello are also notable for their non finito sculptures, where the figure sometimes seems to be contending against its imprisonment in stone.
Online academic essays: Facilità and non finito in Vasari's Lives. Carlos Montes Serrano
The Process of Artistic Creation in Terms of the Non-finito
GurneyJourney on sprezzatura
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| Danäid, 1889, Auguste Rodin (source) |
Rodin's Danaïd, above, is a mythological woman who despairs from her punishment for killing her husband. Her hair merges with the water that she has spilled on the ground, and the curve of her back almost seems like a part of the landscape, merged with the rough marble.
Michelangelo (left) and Donatello are also notable for their non finito sculptures, where the figure sometimes seems to be contending against its imprisonment in stone.The non finito style often conveys a particular attitude of the artist toward the piece, suggesting ease, effortlessness, or informality. It has the effect of sprezzatura, which might be translated as studied carelessness.
It can also express a mystical sense of transformation reminiscent Lao Tzu's admonition to "return to the state of the uncarved block."
Studied non-completion is a common device among contemporary realist sculptors and painters, with many academic ateliers exemplifying a style where the rendering is deliberately left unfinished.
The Metropolitan Museum will be hosting an exhibition called Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible March 18–September 4, 2016 with 197 works at the Met Breuer.
Read more:
Catalog of Met exhibition: Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
Catalog of Met exhibition: Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
The Process of Artistic Creation in Terms of the Non-finito
GurneyJourney on sprezzatura
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