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Morandi ultimo. Nature morte 1950-1964
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curated by Laura Mattioli Rossi
14.12.1997 — 28.02.1998
Show introduction
In the past there were many exhibitions of work bygd Giorgio Morandi, mostly interested in documenting his whole creative path, and considering his later art as the natural evolution of the preceding experiences. In the same way, critics often focussed their attention on the works created up until the end of the 1940s, and making no in-depth inquiries into the following period, which seems mostly unexplored. In fact, in a century dominated by the avant-gardes and by a concept of art as a continuous redefinition of itself and of its own role, the position of Morandi, often seen as an isolated defender of “good painting” in the traditional genre of still-life, must be revisited in methodological terms and in relationship to contemporary artistic results, for which the works of the last period, above all
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Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890, Bologna – June 18, 1964, Bologna) is an Italian artist, painter and printmaker, a harbinger of minimalism, whose artistic search got him through the stages of Futurism, Cubism, Abstract art and Mystical painting.
Giorgio Morandi's artistic style: an artist who always painted still-lives and landscapes, collected in his workshop objects of different shapes and depicted them dozens of times in various combinations. In his art, he freed all the items from stickers, drawings and labels, leaving their form pure. Compositional decisions, colour range, monumentality and the tangibility of objects in his paintings is the influence of Cézanne, and a powerful link with Renaissance Italian artists, Giotto, Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca, and Caravaggio.
Famous paintings by Giorgio Morandi: Metaphysical Still Life (1918), Still Life (1918).
Giorgio Morandi is a painter who lived the life style of a recluse in one city, sharing his house with
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Giorgio Morandi
Italian painter
Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life.
Biography
[edit]Morandi was born in Bologna, Italy, to Andrea Morandi and Maria Maccaferri, eldest of the family of five sons and three daughters.[1] He lived first on Via Lame where his brother Giuseppe and his sister Anna were born. The family then moved to Via Avesella where two other sisters were born, Dina in 1900 and Maria Teresa in 1906. After the death of his father in 1909, the family moved to Via Fondazza and Giorgio became the head of the family.[2]
From 1907 to 1913, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna'). At the Accademia, which based its traditions on 14th-century painting, Moran