The family then moved to Via Avesella where his two other sisters were born, Dina in 1900 and Maria Teresa in 1906. Although Morandi was not greatly concerned with exhibitions during his own lifetime, his works have been displayed in the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) and in many other cities, due largely to the Centro Studi Giorgio Morandi and in particular its president Marilena Pasquali, who founded the Museo Morandi [it] in Bologna in 1993. [7] He also executed 133 etchings, a significant body of work in its own right, and his drawings and watercolors often approach abstraction in their economy of means. With oil paints, he applied it in a painterly fashion with visible brushmarks. The famous Italian writer Umberto Eco gave a 1993 speech inaugurating the Morandi Museum in Bologna including this excerpt: "How can you tell such different stories by depicting not a nativity or a storm at sea, a sunset on a lake or the birth of spring, but an array of objects from a junk shop? He chose everyday, mundane objects, not grand or valuable items. Recevez les dernières infos sur les événements, les tendances et les personnalités qui façonnent le marché de l’art grâce à notre newsletter quotidienne. This was the first time his art was recognized on the international stage and it has been argued that this period gave him the confidence to experiment further. Most of his painting took place in his studio, a small room in an apartment shared with his three sisters and his mother (he lived his whole life with his 3 unwed sisters). His monastic lifestyle is further crystallized by the dust that settled on the many bottles and objects Morandi used in his still lifes. He had his first solo exhibition after the end of the Second World War, at a private commercial gallery in April 1945 at Il Fiore in Florence. In his still life works, he developed a serial style where he depicted groups of objects with only the slightest variations in spacing or positioning. By sharing your details you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. In particular, he studied the work of the Impressionists such as Claude Monet, and later greats like Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat. This idea seems to echo powerfully throughout Morandi's artistic exploration. [5] From 1928 Morandi participated in some of the Venice Biennale exhibitions, in the Quadriennale in Rome and also exhibited in different Italian and foreign cities. Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna to Andrea Morandi and Maria Maccaferri. Through his simple and repetitive motifs and economical use of color, value and surface, Morandi became a prescient and important forerunner of Minimalism. It could be said the real subject of his paintings are the relationships -- between the individual objects and between a single object and the rest as a group. He visited Paris for the first time in 1956, and in 1957 he won the grand prize in São Paulo's Biennial. An exhibition of stills from one of the two films, Still Life, was held at the Center for Italian Modern Art, in New York, in 2016. For 26 years, Morandi retained his post as a professor of etching at the Academy, only leaving in 1956 to pursue artmaking full-time as a well-established painter, finally financially secure from selling his work. Morandi also spent a lot of time in the mountain village of Grizzana, about 22 miles (35km) west of Bologna, eventually having a second home there. He has been written about by Philippe Jaccottet, Jean Leymarie, Jean Clair, Yves Bonnefoy, Roberto Longhi, Francesco Arcangeli [it], Cesare Brandi, Lambeto Vitali, Luigi Magnani, Marilena Pasquali and many other critics. Although his father's unexpected death in 1908 left him to care for his mother and three younger sisters, Morandi continued with his studies with the support of his mother. Marion Boddy-Evans is an artist living on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. En continuant votre visite sur nos sites et nos applications, vous consentez à l’utilisation de ces cookies. He lived first on Via Lame where his brother Giuseppe (who died in 1903) and his sister Anna were born. Morandi developed an interest in art from an early age, displeasing his father who wanted his son to join him in his export business; Morandi attempted this unsuccessfully in 1906 before enrolling at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts in 1907. Regardless of how Morandi may have collaborated with Mussolini's regime in the early years, by the time World War II approached, the artist appears to have separated himself from politics and escaped into neutrality. The 1948 Venice Biennale awarded him first prize for painting. Malgré avoir passé sa vie entière à Bologne, Morandi s’inspire des œuvres de Cézanne, de Derain et de Picasso. Morandi showed in the Novecento Italiano exhibitions of 1926 and 1929, but was more specifically associated with the regional Strapaese group by the end of the decade, a fascist-influenced group emphasizing local cultural traditions. His paintings are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were limited mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes. Plus tard, la famille a déménagé via Avesella n. 30, où il a écrit deux autres sœurs Dina, en 1900, et Maria Teresa, en 1906. Opera..., 1957, Natura morta con due oggetti e un drappo su..., 1929, Natura morta con la tazzina bianca a sinistra, 1930. artnet et nos partenaires utilisent des cookies pour vous fournir des fonctionnalités et des applications sur nos sites afin d’optimiser votre expérience de navigation en ligne. "Giorgio Morandi Artist Overview and Analysis". Morandi is buried in the Certosa di Bologna in the family tomb together with his three sisters. Like many other artists, Morandi was drafted into the army during the First World War, in 1915, but was medically discharged as unfit for service a month and a half later. | Information légale | Politique de confidentialitéInscrivez-vous à la newsletter, Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer. View Giorgio Morandi’s 2,215 artworks on artnet. In that same year, Morandi was appointed instructor of drawing for elementary schools in Bologna—a post he held until 1929. Giorgio Morandi attained stature as one of the most prominent Italian painters of the 20th century, though he lived humbly and developed his art outside the mainstream of Modernism. On the left you can see is a door with a window, a source of natural light. Quiet and polite, both in his private and public life, Morandi was much talked about in Bologna for his enigmatic yet very optimistic personality. In 1943, Morandi was arrested and jailed for about a week under suspicion of participating in resistance movements, although it is more likely that he was brought in as part of a general sweep of the creative personalities of the time. In the United States, he participated multiple times in the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh. [10] Between October 9 and June 25, 2016, the Center for Italian Modern Art, in New York, held an exhibition featuring about 40 paintings, etchings and drawings by Morandi.[11]. To learn more about available works, please provide your contact information, To be the first to know about our online exhibitions. Today the museum includes a reconstruction of his studio. ", In 1922, Giorgio de Chirico said Morandi was "trying to rediscover and create everything by himself." Petit George a vécu d'abord dans Via Boiteux, où même né son frère Joseph, mort en 1903, et sa sœur Anna. His few landscapes reflected the increasing modernity of the world around him; the wires and antennae that were now part of the view from his studio window began to appear, albeit abstractly, in his 1950s paintings. Morandi was a particular favorite of eccentric Scottish poet Ivor Cutler, who included a poem about the painter in his first anthology Many Flies Have Feathers (1973). Abramowicz, Janet and Morandi, Giorgio (2004). But the rest was extraordinary: on the floor, on the shelves, on a table, everywhere, boxes, bottles, vases, all kinds of containers in all kinds of shapes... On the surfaces of the shelves or tables, as well as on the flat tops of boxes, cans or similar receptacles, there was a thick layer of dust. He graduated in 1913, but extended his education with travel throughout Italy, including a trip to the Venice Biennale. Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna to Andrea Morandi and Maria Maccaferri. Merci d’indiquer une adresse e-mail valide, Art européen et britannique du XIXe siècle. La phase Pittura Metafisica de l’œuvre de Morandi dure de 1918 à 1922. De 1930 à 1956, Morandi est professeur de gravure à la Accademia di Belle Arti. Art européen et britannique du XIXe siècle, Art impressionniste et art moderne, Dessins et œuvres sur papier, Claudio Bravo, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Grande natura morta circolare con bottiglia..., 1946, La casetta con il portico e il cipresso..., 1924, Paesaggio con la ciminiera (Sobborghi di..., 1926, Piccola natura morta con tre oggetti, 1961, Natura morta con il cestino del pane (lastra , 1921, Lamberto Vitali – Giorgio Morandi.