Artist Farber's career a celebration of details Aug 25, 2008
But like the great Italian painter Giorgio Morandi, he gave humble forms a second life, a glow that invested them with a large beauty. Farber died early Monday at 91, in the Leucadia home he shared for many years with wife and fellow artist Patricia Patterson. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Collected portraits of human endeavor, industrial forms Aug 10, 2008
"Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964": Morandi ranks with Vermeer, Chardin, and C zanne as one of the supreme masters of painterly stillness. The Metropolitan Museum is mounting this comprehensive retrospective, the first in the United States, with more than 100 of his works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. (Boston Globe)
'So true, so intimate' Jun 28, 2008
During that interval, the art world has found a niche for Giorgio Morandi, painting an infinity of still-life variations on a small repertory of objects collected in his Bologna flat - objects Morandi himself had pre-painted, much in the way Hammersh;i had arranged his apartment. Still more, 20th-century history has found a place for Piet Mondrian, edging and loading his rectangular compartments with a minimal palette - an art of "no objects", a light as pure as paint can deliver. (Guardian Unlimited)
Souren Melikian: A healthy tempo set in Modernist sales May 8, 2008
It all began with four still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, rather small and understated in their pale color scheme as is usual with the Italian painter. These sold without a hitch at prices ranging from $1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
NYC's Global Communications Campaign Launches In Milan With Special Preview Of Metropolitan Museum's Newest Exhibitions And Galleries Feb 19, 2008
"We felt it was imperative to expand our mission into Italy through our brand campaign and local advertising, and I expect to see even more growth as a result of these efforts." Additionally, the Met previewed some of its upcoming exhibitions and newest galleries, including the New Galleries for 19th and early 20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture, Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964, and Jeff Koons on the Roof, as well as the offerings of its world-renowned Costume Institute. For more... (PR Newswire)
Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design Dec 16, 2007
He did not start again until 1957, after the World House art gallery brought him 300 paintings by Giorgio Morandi to be framed. The small Morandi paintings of groups of bottles gave Mr. Kulicke the confidence to work small with modest subjects. (Boston Globe)
Surprises, pleasures to be found in 'Wayne Thiebaud' Dec 10, 2007
And if these pictures are as American as anything by Norman Rockwell, they just as strongly bear comparison to the still lifes of the great early 20th-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi. Laguna Art Museum / VAGA, New York Wayne Thiebaud has turned American-style food displays, as with "Bakery Case" (1996), into elegant, sensuously painted subjects. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Italian artist you should already know Mar 14, 2007
The art of Giorgio Morandi has a disciplined lyricism, at once supercharged and compressed, unabashedly romantic and fiercely ascetic, luxuriantly nostalgic and vehemently modern. Working with a relatively limited range of still-life and landscape motifs for half a century, Morandi, who died in 1964 at the age of seventy-three, produced hundreds of paintings, etchings, and drawings that are among the treasures of twentieth-century art. (New Republic)
Quiet achievers have their day May 13, 2006
For a long time it seemed that Lincoln was completely under the spell of Giorgio Morandi, the Italian master of unbelievably subtle still lifes. Lincoln's quiet, semi-abstract arrangements of bowls and jugs aspired to the same metaphysical depths, although with the suggestion of a sideways glance at artists such as the American Milton Avery or such British painters as William Scott and Craigie Aitchison. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
UC art students study in Bologna UCOP, Apr. 25 Apr 26, 2006
During its history, the Accademia has had among its professors some of the leading 20th century Italian artists including Paolo Manaresi and Giorgio Morandi. UC students who have in the past informally taken courses at the Accademia have waxed positive about the artistic freedom that they are allowed in their classes, the open structure of the academy, its basis in independent experimentation and self-motivation, the collaborative environment among students, and the supportive faculty. (University of California Newswire, CA)
