Amalfi: Moonlight Pattern

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Here Morgan arranged a series of domed buildings and tiered passageways in a geometric grid and rendered them in shades of green and blue. The work's title suggests that the picture may represent the hilly coastal town of Amalfi on the southern end of the Bay of Naples, in Italy. Morgan drew from the techniques of analytic cubism established by Picasso and Braque, a quasi-abstract mode of depiction that asks viewers to bring the scene into focus through their own observations and sensations.

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