Against the Current
The Venice of Mr. Morgan's brush is more of a spatial idiom that an actual location with palette echoing the Siennese manner. Both as a colorist and a student of perspective, this painter is concerned with the universal application of the concrete. In my view, Mr. Morgan is one of the most serious realists of his generation (...) painting against the current.
JOSEPH BRODSKY
La pittura di Robert Morgan
by Andrea Molesini
Go in fear of abstraction… the natural object is always the adequate symbol
(Ezra Pound)
Una Venezia inedita, smaltata di luce, esplorata, vivisezionata quasi, da un occhio molto americano e molto amante del vero, che confida nel mistero della presenza naturale delle cose più che in quello del pensiero. Sono i fatti e la luce che qui contano: No ideas but in things. Nella cittadella dell’intelletto trova accoglienza solo ciò che i sensi hanno esperimentato, vissuto, e la memoria vuole trattenere.
Sono i fatti e la luce che qui contano: No ideas but in things.
Robert Morgan and the Art of Perception
by Robert C. Morgan
Robert Morgan is a painter whose work is embedded in the tradition of the landscape. Although his approach tends toward the Classical more than the Romantic, he is fundamentally a Modernist --"an artist in his time" -- to cite the nineteenth century French critic, Charles Baudelaire. Over the years, his self-appointed task has been to capture the monuments and waterways of Venice through the appearance of light.
Within the solitude of these paintings, one may awaken to being somewhere between the sea and sky. Here the everyday secular world emerges with the artist's ambient light suggesting an unremitting sanctity and wholeness.