Description:
two mallets, small round container with lid, white bottle and other simple shapes crowded together on a plain table before a plain light colored wall; still life; dish/bottle
Label Text:
Described by one critic as a “poet of the familiar and unexceptional,” Giorgio Morandi spent his career in his native Bologna painting bottles, bowls, and boxes in his bedroom, which doubled as his studio.
The Museum’s painting belongs to the late phase of Morandi’s working life, when objects were painted with no intervals of space between them. These intimate and deceptively simple canvases, painted in muted, subtle tones, achieve balance and infinite variation. They insist on their mundane subjects and at the same time suggest timeless, monumental architecture, evident in SCMA’s painting of closely composed bottles and a covered tin, backed by a wall of boxes.
As Morandi said, “One can travel the world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.”
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