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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

Still life

Giorgio Morandi

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GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Turin

GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Turin

Via Magenta, 31, Turin

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At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, Morandi's attention was increasingly focused on a few issues. In fact, the object becomes a means for the artist, a pretext for exploring the deepest reasons for painting. As can be assessed by observing this still life, in the Morandian research of these years the spatial connotation becomes essential. The laying surface of the objects often coincides with the infinite line of the horizon. This transforms the space into an increasingly indefinite and mental entity. The light, clear and diffused, envelops things in a suspended atmosphere, as if they and the shadows are progressively reduced until they disappear or, regardless of the physical laws, become spots of color of the same consistency as the objects. A further source of estrangement is sometimes determined by the relational value that is established between objects. Morandi subverts, in fact, the normal mechanism of vision, and the objects at the bottom loom over the foreground, going beyond a plausible scan based on near / far coordinates. The depth can only be hinted at by a slender oblique line that marks the laying surface or by the color, in which the subdued murmuring of grays, whites and ivories (Marilena Pasquali) can be shattered by the almost timbral assonances of the oranges, pinks and blues. From then on, the concept of series emerges in Morandi's operative procedure, which implies the repetition of the same subject, so that in the repetition the artist's attention is focused on those sensitive differences in tone, light, point of view, of size.
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Title: Still life

Author: Giorgio Morandi

Date: 1950

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: GAM - Modern Art Gallery of Turin

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