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Giorgio Morandi (July 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life.
The still life is their tribute to Giorgio Morandi’s still life paintings, which have a looseness and tightness that never reconcile; their nuance and beauty rest not in cleverness but in their ...
Clarisse Loxton Peacock, born Klara Féhér (died 2004) was a Hungarian-born artist, later styled Lady Dunnett.An admirer of the Italian still life painter Giorgio Morandi, she was particularly known for her own still life compositions, though later in life also painted stylised human forms.
Unlike the Netherlands, the painting of still life and genre painting did not attract as many practitioners among Italian painters. This is a partial list of still life painters active or born in Italy, concentrating on painters from before the 20th century.
Morandi and Laura Efrikian in In ginocchio da te (1964). After winning a music festival for newcomers in Bellaria – Igea Marina, in 1962 Morandi made an audition for RCA Italiana, and while his performance left dubious a large part of the commission he was put under contract for the insistence of Franco Migliacci, who became its producer and main author for the first part of his career. [3]
Verdcourt has been working with clay since the 1950s. Following a period of working and exhibiting in NZ, for an exhibition at Manawatu Art Gallery in the early 1980s called, Still Life is Still Alive she was asked "to provide a large number of pottery vessels in the style of Morandi so that students and members of the public could be encouraged to draw and paint from them in the gallery space."
June 18 – Giorgio Morandi, still life painter (b. 1890) June 24 – Stuart Davis, painter (b. 1892) June 26 – Gerrit Rietveld, designer and architect; July 21 – Jean Fautrier, painter and sculptor (b. 1898) August 12 – Ernst Kühnel, German art historian (b. 1882) [15] August 31 – Peter Lanyon, landscape painter (b. 1918)
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott was born Gwynion Lawrie John on 1 January 1935 in Ballarat, Australia. [2] She was the second of four daughters. Her father was director of an engineering firm and her mother an eclectic arts and crafts teacher–practitioner who surrounded her children with craft objects she had made.