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Georgio Morandi
White Still Life, 1946
Morandi was born in Bologna where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Although influenced early in his career by Futurism and the "Metaphysical School," he never fully belonged to any particular artistic movement. He approached the craft of painting in a very classical manner and insisted on stretching his own canvases and creating his own paint. Morandi painted still lifes throughout his career, but after 1940 he began producing series in which he painted the same subject repeatedly, exploring the subtle differences achieved by varying viewpoints, light, or groupings of objects. |