The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Trip to see the Giorgio Morandi Exhibit

On Wednesday, October 22, 2008

 

Tickets to this show include the charter bus, admission to the

museum and show with an audio tour.

Click here for registration and additional information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GEORGIO MORANDI (1890-1964)

 

Georgio Morandi was born in Bologna where today there is a museum dedicated to the display of his work.  He was inspired by Cezanne and Rousseau.  Throughout his career, he concentrated almost exclusively on still lifes and landscapes, except for a few self-portraits.  With great sensitivity to tone, color, and compositional balance, he would depict the same familiar bottles and vases again and again in paintings notable for their simplicity of execution.  Morandi stated that “What interests me most is expressing what’s in nature, in the visible world that is.”

He was one of the most impressive Italian painters of his day.  Federico Fellini paid tribute to him in his film La dolce vita, which featured Morandi’s paintings.

Through his simple and repetitive motifs and economical use of color, value and surface, Morandi became a prescient and important forerunner of Minimalism.