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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.
Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964), Italian Still-life painter, proto-Minimalist; Barnett Newman (1905–1970), American painter, abstract expressionist; David Smith (1906–1965), pioneer of geometric and minimalist sculpture; Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967), American painter, abstract expressionist
Robert Moore Kulicke (1924 – December 14, 2007) was an American artist, frame maker, and teacher.Though most influential for modernizing the design of picture frames, he was also a noted painter of small and delicate still lifes, as well as a jewellery maker credited with reviving the ancient goldsmithing technique of granulation.
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.
It is worth mentioning in the graphic field Giorgio Morandi, an artist only temporarily ascribed to futurism and of personal evolution. He focused mainly on the representation of objects—often still lifes—in a style that combined classicism and cubism, with a certain cézannian influence.
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Metaphysical painting (Italian: pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality, "painting that which ...
Many of her works are still lifes with diminutive objects dwarfed by the surrounding spaces. [6] Like Giorgio Morandi (who is often mentioned in discussion of her work), Bermingham uses a limited collection of objects that she arranges in various combinations and settings; toys, marionettes , chairs, birdcages, and butterflies are among her ...