Morandi

Morandi is peaceful and meditative without even trying.

Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2008

Giorgio Morandi is currently showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2008

Giorgio Morandi is currently showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

September 2008 2008

It is artifice in service of actuality, in the great still-life tradition of Chardin, Manet and Morandi.

Photo-Op: Deep-Hued Sea 2011

Among the highlights was Giorgio Morandi 's chalky group of vases from 1953, "Still Life," that sold for $1.9 million, over its $1 million high estimate.

Christie's Super-Sized Sale Brings In $231.4 Million Kelly Crow 2010

Morandi, I confess, I can take or leave, but — between appointments, and skirting the south side of the Capitol on foot, admiring the huge, glossy magnolias — Mark and I sought out Golden Seams, andI am hugely glad that we did.

Broken China 2009

Even after she decided in the early 1970s that her primary artistic tool would be the view camera, the startling pictures she made with it over the next half-century bore more of a kinship with the work of Cézanne, Morandi and Corot than with anything emerging from the darkrooms of her contemporaries.

The Poetry of the Ordinary Richard B. Woodward 2012

A Giorgio Morandi still life would bore most people to death these days.

October 2009 2009

Bologna Art "Wayne Thiebaud at Museo Morandi" dedicates a retrospective to the iconic Californian painter best known for his Pop Art works depicting toilets, cakes, boots and toys in colorful contrast.

What's on around Europe 2011

In the current show, we have "Eroded Landscape" (1998), a gorgeous stacking of cheap hand-etched and sand-blasted glassware of different sizes and shapes (Morandi in three dimensions!)

Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011