Giorgio Morandi: More Still Life Paintings

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“Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.”

~ Giorgio Morandi (Italian, 1890–1964)

Still Life, Oil on canvas

Giorgio Morandi

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... as art leapt forward in the twentieth century, Morandi kept painting the same thing over and over.  [Source]

Still Life, Oil on canvas

Giorgio Morandi

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Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases.  ... Morandi’s work seems to slow down time and show you things you’ve never seen before.  He painted things one sees all the time, yet portrayed things never before seen.  [Source]

 

Still Life, Oil on canvas

Giorgio Morandi

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Wallace Stevens wrote of wanting “to feel the same way over and over,” the desire for “the river to go on flowing the same way.” That’s Morandi. Seemingly in violation of natural law, he stepped into the same river thousands of times.  [Source]

Still Life, Oil on canvas

Giorgio Morandi

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  Giorgio Morandi found himself in his vessels and vases.  [Source]

Still Life, c. 1925

Oil on canvas

Giorgio Morandi
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia 

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 ... his work begins with small pictorial events that gather weight and become perfect things. Taking in his rhythms, balance, color, and surfaces, you see how something as minor as a still life can vie for greatness with the Sistine ceiling.  [Source]

 

Still Life

Giorgio Morandi

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Still Life

Giorgio Morandi

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Flowers, 1942
Oil on canvas

Giorgio Morandi
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Madrid, Spain

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Giorgio Morandi, 1959
Watercolor

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Text written by Jerry Saltz  [Source]