The Monterey Museum of Art, La Mirada, will feature Russell Chatham's grandfather, Gottardo Piazzoni, in an exhibition entitled "From Dawn To Dusk."
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Adams, Gottardo Piazzoni in his Studio, San Francisco, 1932
Piazzoni has frequently been labeled a mystic. He perceived nature and the landscape as the embodiment of God, and in his paintings he sought a communion with both, yet he was not religious in the doctrinaire sense. His family was Roman Catholic and he had attended church regularly when a boy in Switzerland, but later in life went to church only on Easter Sunday at the Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo in Carmel. Piazzoni's religion was not to be found indoors, but in nature. "He appreciated everything about nature," his daughter recalled. For Piazzoni, nature, like his lapsed Catholicism, could be the source of powerful ritual. It is still something of a family legend that he knew and celebrated the exact moment of the full moon.
He knew exactly where the moon would be coming up, and we'd sit there and wait, and wait for the moon. And pretty soon you'd see the light. There was nothing to disturb this moon and the light would start coming up behind the hill...the more we could see the moon the more we'd yell and scream till the whole moon would show, and then we'd clap, and yell, and scream--hooray, hooray!
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