Giorgio Morandi was born on the 20th of July 1890 and was a famous Italian painter who specialised in still life. His still-life paintings are known for their subtle tone and the depiction of mainly small objects such as vases, bottles, flowers, and landscapes.
Giorgio Morandi studied at Accademia di belle Arti di Bologna (1907-1913). Giorgio Morandi often used different muted colours in his still life paintings, mainly using whites and different shades of grey and on occasions using other sombre colours.
This deliberate use of pale colours created inward-looking paintings that are sensitive to the objects portrayed. Another technique that Giorgio used was printmaking, this technique allowed Giorgio to recreate multiple original artworks.
During Giorgio’s painting career, although he was not keen on presenting his art in exhibitions, he eventually showcased his work for the first time in 1914 in Bologna with the Futurist painters, and in 1918-19 he became associated with the Metaphysical School, a group who painted in a style developed by Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carra.
Giorgio was famous for four specific genres of art, these were, realism which was shown in many of his still-life paintings, modern art, futurism, and metaphysical painting and art movement created by Giorgio and focuses on different ordinary objects.
I really like Giorgio Morandi’s still life paintings because of the gloomy black and white atmosphere they create, and I believe I could recreate this atmosphere in my artwork. However, I would focus on using black ballpoint pens because I can recreate the different tones like the light’s greys and the intensely dark shadows.
To read more about Giorgio Morandi, here is a great book all about his late paintings, giving you an insight to how he painted and the works he created.
