Still Life (Natura morta) (1943), Giorgio Morandi via [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
‘Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first exhibit of its size and scope in the United States, displaying approximately one hundred still life paintings and a dozen landscapes. Composed with narrow-ranging hues of cream, brown, and gray, Morandi projects a study of rhythm, balance and intricacy of shape with his identifiable style. The show includes works which span Morandi’s 50-year tenure as a painter and track the lineage of the painter’s influence upon Cézanne, Cubism, Futurism, and the pittura metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà . In addition, the intimacy of the underground gallery of the Robert Lehman wing provides well-suited location for the subtleties of such an artist.
All That Life Contains, Contained [NYTimes]
Morandi’s Subtle Spectable [NYSun]
Tables for One [New Yorker]
Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964 [Met Museum]
Museo Morandi Website
Landscape (Paesaggio) (1935), Giorgio Morandi via [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Morandi’s Italian still-life paintings were considered to be born out of his reclusive nature. Spending most of his life in a single apartment and rarely venturing far, Morandi’s existence was one of mysterious involvements until his death at the age of seventy-three. Nonetheless Morandi utilized the “ambiguity of ‘size or location’ as the key to [his] indelible modernity†and was, “free of the organizing prejudice of perspective.†via [New Yorker]
Still Life (Natura morta) (1913), Giorgio Morandi via [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Still Life (Natura morta) (1956), Giorgio Morandi via [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Still Life (Natura morta) (1951), Giorgio Morandi via [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Still Life (Natura morta) (1941), Giorgio Morandi via [Metropolitan Museum of Art]
