Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life.

Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes.

With a sparse selection of household objects and familiar landscapes, painted in muted tones and warm light, Giorgio Morandi bridged the grand legacy of Italian art and 20 th -century modernism.

1998年7月20日 · Giorgio Morandi (born July 20, 1890, Bologna, Italy—died June 18, 1964, Bologna) was an Italian painter and printmaker known for his simple, contemplative still lifes of bottles, jars, and boxes. Morandi cannot be closely identified with a particular school of painting.

2022年5月20日 · With a restricted range of ordinary items and recognizable landscapes portrayed in muted tones and gentle light, Giorgio Morandi’s paintings combined the long tradition of Italian art with 20th-century modernity.

2024年11月15日 · Among the most celebrated and influential artists of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) is best known for his paintings, drawings, and etchings depicting still life arrangements of quotidian objects.

Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life.

2020年1月29日 · Morandi is best known today for his beautifully contemplative still-life paintings — works which prompted the art historian, Roberto Longhi, to describe him as ‘arguably the greatest Italian painter of the 20th century’.