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morandi's neutral colors

Giorgio Morandi
“Natura Morte”
1960
Oil on Canvas

As an aficionado of Giorgio Morandi, I took the opportunity (many years ago) while traveling through Italy to visit the Museo Morandi in Bologna which has “sixty-two oil paintings, eighteen watercolours, ninety-two drawings, seventy-eight etchings, two sculptures and two engraved plates”

Link to Museo Morandi

 


Giorgio Morandi
“Natura Morte”
1954
Oil on Canvas

   

I am captivated by Morandi's still-lifes. His use of minimal values – close value tones, and his play of space: ambiguous placement of objects. here all the jars interconnect with the tabletop's back edge transforming the ordinary into a transcendent reality.

Giorgio Morandi
“Natura Morte”
1961
Oil on Canvas
Private Collection
Giorgio Morandi

   
     

“Natura Morte”
1943
Oil on Canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Collection of
Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Mellon

Retrospective of Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964 at the Metropolitan Museum New York City: September 16, 2008 to
December 14, 2008.

Link to exhibit website.


Article on Morandi in
The New Yorker -
The Art World
Tables for One
Giorgio Morandi's
Still-lifes

by Peter Schjeldahl
September 22, 2008
Link to article

Quote from above article:
“His etchings amaze, triggering subliminal sensations of color with nothing but variations with crosshatched black lines.”

   
  Giorgio Morandi
“Natura Morte”
1917
Etching
     

Giorgio Morandi
“Natura Morte a tratti sottilissimi”
Still life with Very Fine Hatching
1933
Etching