Giorgio Morandi
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Still life paintings Art Work
| Name: |
Giorgio Morandi |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Bologna, Italy |
| Nationality: |
Italian |
| Birth: |
1890 |
| Death: |
1964 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
Still life paintings |
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Oil on Canvas |
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| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
Printmaker
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Biography
Morandi was one of the most important Italian painters of his day. During his career he primarily focused on still lifes and landscapes, except for a few self-portraits. With great sensitivity to tone, color, and compositional balance, he would depict the same familiar bottles and vases again and again in paintings notable for their simplicity of execution. During his lifetime he executed 133 etchings, a significant body of work in its own right, and his drawings and watercolors often approach abstraction in their economy of means. He explained: "What interests me most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is"; he also said, "Nothing is more abstract than reality".
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