Giorgio Morandi
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Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes.
Giorgio Morandi, cropped
Morandi's studio in Via Fondazza, Bologna
Morandi's tomb in the Certosa di Bologna
Natura Morta, oil on canvas (1956)
Futurism
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Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence,
Giorgio Morandi
…works of artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, and Paolo Uccello made a profound impression on him. He had a brief digression into a Futurist style in 1914. In that same year, Morandi was appointed instructor of drawing for elementary schools in Bologna, a post he held until 1929. Morandi was…
Gino Severini, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin (1912), oil on canvas with sequins, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Italian Futurists Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carrà, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Gino Severini in front of Le Figaro, Paris (February 9, 1912)
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913), bronze cast in 1931 or 1934, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises (1910), oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York City