Giorgio morandi

A tightly arranged group of boxes and vases sit on a table top represented only by a single line. Giorgio Morandi experimented with light and shadow falling across simple, geometric forms to create an abstract pattern. This work is characteristic of the still-life subjects that Morandi produced obsessively for more than forty years in his apartment in Bologna, Italy. His is an art of calm restraint in contrast to the other more flamboyant developments of modern art.

The classic still life is one of the few subjects you can paint that you have almost full control over. You are not vulnerable to changes in the environment or the subject just moving. As a result, still life subjects have allowed artists to really test what is possible in terms of brushwork, color and

Giorgio Morandi made etchings at a time when etching was a sort of specialized art. Etching dominated the process of printing images, illustrations in books and other publications, as well as sculptural and architectural works. With the development of modern printing, etching lost its practical value, so with its popularity, but it evolved into the use of metal, ceramics, and other media. It is to Morandi et al, that the art continues to occupy a distinct place in the world of art through…

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Though our course studies ekphrastic poetry, there's a growing attention out there to ekphrasis in fiction. I recently finished reading Don DeLillo's Falling Man, a post 9-11 novel. An excerpt from that novel was published in The New Yorker earlier this year. Key in the narrative are several ekphrastic moments, including an important look at two paintings in the apartment of an art historian, the mother-in-law of the 9-11 survivor at the center of the story. The first time they are…

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