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With the Italian Renaissance between the 14th and 16th centuries, Florence was for a time, the art capital of the world. With artists such as Michelangelo, de Vinci, Giotto and Botticelli, there is no dearth of Italian artwork evoking grand statements. Supported by the Vatican and the Medici family, art flourished in Italy as it has in no period since.
France gave us Impressionism in the 19th century, beginning a secular age in art. The modern period of Picasso and Matisse followed. Both men achieved the fame previously held by Renaissance artists and Paris became the art capital of the world during the 19th century and midway into the 20th century.
Quietly working in a studio in his hometown of Bologna, Italy, Giorgio Morandi, while watching the trends in Paris from afar, avoided the clamor. While managing to earn a reputation as a modern master and the foremost still life painter of the 20th century, he worked in solitude.
Influenced by the brooding, surrealist landscapes of Giorgio de Chirico, another Italian, Morandi did not entirely eschew tradition and his work is compared to Giotto, an early Renaissance painter much admired for his childlike simplicity. Morandi compositions, seemingly rudimentary arrangements of bottles and various containers, become monumental, evoking the architecture of medieval Bologna.
It is said of design composition that less is more. Never is this concept more in evidence than in the works of Morandi. By using a neutral hue structure, omitting overt technical feats such as mirrored reflections of glass objects, by removing labels, refusing personal significance, he offered only abstraction. By his simple repeated motif, we are forced to recognize the abiding spirit behind the unexceptional vessels.
Visiting Italy and the vast quantity of Italian artwork, a quiet stop in Bologna may refresh the aesthetic sensibilities. At the Morandi Museum you will find nothing to puzzle over. With no history lessons to absorb, no technical feats to be in awe of, you will instead see with eye of a gifted artist, who offered a gentle message imbued with spirit. Read more about: Italian Artwork
France gave us Impressionism in the 19th century, beginning a secular age in art. The modern period of Picasso and Matisse followed. Both men achieved the fame previously held by Renaissance artists and Paris became the art capital of the world during the 19th century and midway into the 20th century.
Quietly working in a studio in his hometown of Bologna, Italy, Giorgio Morandi, while watching the trends in Paris from afar, avoided the clamor. While managing to earn a reputation as a modern master and the foremost still life painter of the 20th century, he worked in solitude.
Influenced by the brooding, surrealist landscapes of Giorgio de Chirico, another Italian, Morandi did not entirely eschew tradition and his work is compared to Giotto, an early Renaissance painter much admired for his childlike simplicity. Morandi compositions, seemingly rudimentary arrangements of bottles and various containers, become monumental, evoking the architecture of medieval Bologna.
It is said of design composition that less is more. Never is this concept more in evidence than in the works of Morandi. By using a neutral hue structure, omitting overt technical feats such as mirrored reflections of glass objects, by removing labels, refusing personal significance, he offered only abstraction. By his simple repeated motif, we are forced to recognize the abiding spirit behind the unexceptional vessels.
Visiting Italy and the vast quantity of Italian artwork, a quiet stop in Bologna may refresh the aesthetic sensibilities. At the Morandi Museum you will find nothing to puzzle over. With no history lessons to absorb, no technical feats to be in awe of, you will instead see with eye of a gifted artist, who offered a gentle message imbued with spirit. Read more about: Italian Artwork
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