Artist: Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Futurism
Media: Painting, Etching
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Biography:
Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna and lived there his entire life. In his early career, he painted landscapes but later focused primarily on still life. He had brief stints with Futurism and Metaphysical Painting, but on the whole, stayed away from modern art movements. Rather, his still life paintings contain symbolic and literary references and are executed in a small tonal range. He was inspired by the art of Cezanne. His reputation heightened after World War II and he was influential on many younger Italian artists.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1953
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Giorgio Morandi, Paesaggio. Grizzana., 1931
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Giorgio Morandi, Gruppo di Zinnie (Group of Zinnias), 1931
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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life with Bread Basket (small plate), 1921
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Giorgio Morandi, Natura Morte con la Tazzina Bianca a Sinistra (Still Life with the White Cup at the Left), 1930
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life 1959 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life c. 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life c. 1955 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life c. 1950 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Italian
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Giorgio Morandi - Still Life 1942 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Pietro Aquila, The Death of the Virgin, after G.M. Morandi, 17th century
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Giorgio Morandi - Grande Natura Morta con la Caffettiera (Large Still Life with Coffee Pot) 1933 etching on paper Des Moines Art Center Italian
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Giorgio Vasari, Sheet of Drawings, after Giorgio Vasari, 16th century
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James McNeill Whistler - The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore c. 1880 chalk and pastel on Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Joseph Pennell, San Giorgio, Venice, 1883
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Joseph Mallord William Turner - Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d"Italia, 1915
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Prison, 16th century
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Giorgio Sommer, Fountain, Italy, circa 1870
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Giorgio Ghisi , Apollo and the Muse, circa 1557
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Joseph Nash, Church of San Giorgio dei Greci, 1843
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The Nativity Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio di Giorgio di Martino Pollaiuolo) (Italian, Sienese, 1439-1501)Tempera
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Robert Hinshelwood, San Giorgio, Venice, 19th century
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Carl Thiemann, San Giorgio, Venice, 20th century
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Giorgio Sommer, Untitled [View of Rome], circa 1880
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Giorgio Sommer, Soldiers" Quarters, Pompeii, 19th century
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Giorgio de Chirico, Gli Archeologi IV (The Archaeologists IV), from the series Metamorphosis, 1929
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Giorgio Vasari, Figure Composition, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and the Rose, after Luca Penni, 1556
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Giorgio Ghisi , Thetis, after Perino del Vaga, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Calumny of Apelles, after Luca Penni, 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi , Hercules, Bacchus, Pan and Another God, after Primaticcio, 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Prison, after Giulio Romano, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi, circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed, ca. 1555
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Canaletto - Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore c. 1750 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Italian
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Giovanni Battista Mercati, A St. Giorgio doux pagatano j Soldati Romani (At S. Giorgio, Where They Paid the Roman Soldiers), pl. 30 from the series Alcune vedute et prospettive di luoghi dishabitati di Roma (Some Views and Perspectives of the Uninhabited
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Giorgio Ghisi , Angelica and Medoro, after Teodoro Ghisi, circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi, circa 1570
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Giorgio Sommer, 1206 Tempio di Mercurio, Pompei, 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Giorgio Morandi: Paintings and works on paper from 1914 to 1963
The engravings, watercolours and drawings all belong to the Morandi Museum Collection; the oils from the Museo Morandi, Uffizi and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Florence, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Col Giovnardi), G...
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art: Giorgio Morandi: The Collectors Eye
Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) is one of Italy's best-known 20th century artists. He was born in Bologna and lived there throughout his life, except for a number of short stays ...
Consulate of the Republic of Hungary: LASZLO TAR: MY SWEET HOME CLOSE ME INTO YOUR HEART
This exhibit will feature over 50 select pieces of original work created between 1940 and 2000. The event is sponsored by the Hungarian American Cultural Association. ...
Pan American Art Gallery: Works by Raul Diaz, Catherine Maize and Juan Salazar
Recently deceased Mexican artist Juan Salazar unites geometric forms with metaphysical concepts through his multicolored small scale paintings. Acclaimed Argentine artist Raul Diaz creates mystical settings of figurative wonder in textured and pai...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Carlos Scliar: Painting from 1948 to 1983
Carlos Scliar was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in 1921. He gave the first individual show of his paintings in 1940 in São Paulo. His participation in the war from 1944 as a member of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy (where h...
AIGA National Design Center Gallery: Milton Glaser: Art is Work
One of the most influential and unusual figures in the history of graphic design, Glaser has been producing memorable images...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: Awaiting a Call: Curated by Miguel Fernández-Cid
The way in which Morandi paints the void between the objects in order to represent them as light presences, both physical and mental, almost immaterial, is not far from William de Koonings or Bruce Naumans thoughts when they concede that in ord...

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