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Giorgio Morandi
Still Life, 1959
Around 1940, Morandi devoted himself to producing multiple series of similar still-life paintings, steadily creating more abstract compositions by the 1950s. In his 1946 White Still Life, which is also in this collection, he rendered the objects in several tones, producing the effect of shadow and depth in the manner of traditional still lifes that convincingly translates a three-dimensional subject to a two-dimensional canvas. In this 1959 Still Life, however, Morandi used flat expanses of color, detaching his objects from the real world and placing them in an imaginary one where their relationship in space is less important than the artist's vision of them. |