Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker whose works of art mainly revolved around simple subjects such as vases, bottles, bowls, flowers and landscapes. He was born in Bologna to Andrea Morandi and Maria Maccaferri. Throughout his life, he lived quietly in a modest apartment that he shared with his three sisters. Morandi specialized in delicately tinted still-life paintings of ceramic containers.
Morandi’s depictions of sunbaked landscapes are either from his studio window or those observed outside located in the Apennine hills. His works are noted for their tonal subtlety in depicting unremarkable objects making endless variety within the arrangements stem from his contemplative skills as a painter.
In 1948, Giorgio Morandi was honored with the first prize for painting at the Venice Biennale while 1957 saw him win a grand prize at Sao Paolo’s Biennial. Although known for his unique style of still life painting, it cannot be mentioned that he is identified closely with any particular school of painting which shows that he had developed this unique style on his own terms – this only goes to confirm how much of an accomplished artist he truly was.
