1946, Giorgio Morandi, White Still Life -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
Morandi was born in Bologna, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist never belonged to any particular artistic movement, although Futurism and metaphysical painting were early influences. He approached painting in a classical manner and insisted on stretching his own canvases and creating his own paint.
Morandi painted still lifes throughout his career, but after 1940, he began producing series that explored the subtle differences achieved by varying viewpoints, lighting, and arrangements of the same group of objects in his compositions. In the 1946 painting White Still Life, he used shadow and depth in the manner of traditional still lifes to achieve an effect of naturalistic perspective.
1946, Giorgio Morandi, White Still Life -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
Morandi was born in Bologna, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. The artist never belonged to any particular artistic movement, although Futurism and metaphysical painting were early influences. He approached painting in a classical manner and insisted on stretching his own canvases and creating his own paint.
Morandi painted still lifes throughout his career, but after 1940, he began producing series that explored the subtle differences achieved by varying viewpoints, lighting, and arrangements of the same group of objects in his compositions. In the 1946 painting White Still Life, he used shadow and depth in the manner of traditional still lifes to achieve an effect of naturalistic perspective.