Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings Details
About the Author 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. Read more
Reviews
I looked hard and long for a representative set of illustrations capturing the quality of gallery shows of this artist I have personally attended.Looking at the cover,you think its a slam dunk. Here we go.Full bore Morandi.The book however is actually a series of largish postcard size pics of his wonderful later works.It beats me why anyone would go to the trouble of going through the legal grind of publishing, organizing the actual technology of colour, tone etc. etc. of the works. You wouldn't dare do this this with Cezanne or Monet.
