Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi (Bologna, June 20th, 1890 - Bologna, June 18th, 1964) is an Italian painter.

Giorgio Morandi cannot be clearly identified at a school of specific painting. The work of Cézanne represents its major influence: it borrows the monumentality of the forms and the dense zones of color to him. The artist develops an intimate approach of Article Guidé by a formal sensitivity of a great refinement, it gives to his landscapes and his dead natures a subtlety delicacy of tone and drawing, causing at the spectator a contemplative mode.

== Analyze of work == Dead natures are the heaviest part of the work of Giorgio Morandi. They represent objects ordered carefully on a table in the workshop, to be observed and painted. These objects are easily identifiable fabrics in fabrics; those are the plaster mouldings of bottles, a cube, a funnel auquels comes to mix with the occasion a shell, a fruit… The positioning of the objects within the framework is made with a particular care related to the geometrization of space or is read: remarkable squares, diagonals. A slow work of maturation is then implemented by the drawing and painting by successive recoveries, made superpositions of color of a full paste with ranges of gray of a sensiblitié extreme, which amplify a kind of delectatio morosa. Work with the first glance can appear white, as faded but of table in table one finds a form of astonishing coloring with a particular touch. Morandi with the reputation to have crushed itself its colors.

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Artchive one Giorgio Morandi
Museo Morandi

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