Jar 1935 - 1942

Yolande Delasser made this painting of a jar, we don’t know when, but it's watercolor on paper. The way Delasser’s put down the color – a kind of creamy grey, or light tan, with these dark blues – makes me think about how color can be like a feeling. The jar seems to have a real presence, like a person. It's interesting how she included the detail shots – the top and side view of the jar. It’s like she’s not just showing us the object but how we might really study it. You can almost feel her moving around it. I’m reminded of Giorgio Morandi. He was a painter who spent a lot of his life making paintings of bottles and jars. Like Delasser, he found something really beautiful and fascinating in the everyday. Both artists show us how seeing can be a kind of slow, thoughtful process, more about feeling than knowing.