Giorgio Morandi: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Etchings
?Texts by Gottfried Boehm, Wolfgang Holler, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, and Franz Armin Morat
Throughout his long career, Morandi focused on still lifes and landscapes that captured the simple beauty of light and form. While his contemporaries struggled with the intellectual turmoil and aesthetic experimentation of the twentieth century, Morandi remained faithful to the subjects that fascinated him most: bottles, vases, and jugs, and the view out his studio window in Bologna. This richly illustrated volume brings together more than one hundred of his most important works. Grouped according to technique—paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings—each aspect of his work is given thoughtful consideration by scholars who explore Morandi’s genius for composition, his serene palette, and his expertise as a draftsman.
Publisher: Prestel
Artists: Giorgio Morandi
Contributors: Gottfried Boehm, Wolfgang Holler, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Franz Armin Morat
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Softcover
Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in (19.7 x 24.1 cm)
Pages: 168
Reproductions: 66 color, 112 b&w
ISBN: 9783791339535
Retail: $19.95 | £14.99
Status: Out Of Print
Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi was born in 1890 in Bologna, Italy, where he lived until his death in 1964. Over the course of his five-decade career, Morandi was most prolific during the postwar years from the late 1940s until the 1960s, when he executed more than half of his entire output of paintings. Remaining dedicated to the repertoire of subjects that had occupied him since the early 1910s, including tabletop still lifes of bottles, boxes, vases, and flowers, as well as occasional landscapes, his variations on a given compositional motif became more persistent, nuanced, and abstract in the later part of his life. Through subtle shifts in color, tone, scale, composition, and mark-making, Morandi was able to convey the ever-changing perceptual understanding and memory of the objects and spaces one encounters. In 1993, the Museo Morandi was established in Bologna, Italy, and is currently located in the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.
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