Sunday, September 30, 2012

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)

Morandi 10

Still Life, Oil on canvas
Giorgio Morandi

... 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]
 Galleria d'Arte Maggiore G.A.M.

Still Life, Oil on canvas
Giorgio Morandi

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]

Morandi 7

Still Life, Oil on canvas
Giorgio Morandi
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  Giorgio Morandi found himself in his vessels and vases.  [Source]

GIORGIO MORANDI. 1890-1964  Still Life

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]

http://www.artfortune.com/images/artists/199481/2009081045717pm199481-p-1.jpg
 
Still Life
Giorgio Morandi
 
AskART Artist

Still Life
Giorgio Morandi
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Morandi, Giorgio - Flowers - Metaphysical painting - Oil on canvas - Still Life - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza - Madrid, Spain

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]





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