Talk:Giorgio Morandi

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Morandi never visited Paris. But he was in Kunsthaus Zurich, Cézanne exhibition, the same year.

The link of accademia di belle arti leads to this accademia in Firenze. But Morandi studied in the accademia of this name in Bologna.

Compliments

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from de.wikipedia— Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.144.178.241 (talk • contribs)

Idiom?

This is pretentious, bullshit art talk. The word you are looking for is style. Or perhaps technique, mode, etc. Idiom comes from the word for language, and retains this history in its use. It has no application here except as a figurative contrivance inappropriate for this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnDavidBurgess (talk • contribs) 22:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Typical example of incorrect, ambiguous use of a word. I replaced "idiom" with "style." How does it look?Lestrade (talk) 21:44, 13 December 2008 (UTC)Lestrade[reply]

This use of "idiom" is commonplace in visual arts writing, and is no more pretentious than "style". Here's definition 2 from Oxford American Dictionaries: "a characteristic mode of expression in music or art : they were both working in a neo-Impressionist idiom." If we want to get hyper-pedantic, "style" comes from a word for writing instruments & retains this use; "idiom" derives from idios: one's own, private, peculiar. Morandi's early works adopted the Cubists' characteristic monochrome and peculiar treatment of form. Either word serves. Ewulp (talk) 00:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other tributes to Morandi

I would like to point out that:

also Michelangelo Antonioni paid tribute to Morandi showing one of his paintings in a famous scene of the film La notte.

even a scene from Accattone by Pier Paolo Pasolini and the beginning of a the cult movie Capriccio by Carmelo Bene, for their own admission, were inspired by Morandi's paintings.

Yours faithfully,

Maurus Flavus (talk) 13:32, 21 April 2011

Chelydra (talk) 18:07, 24 September 2011 (UTC)== Outrageous violations of Wiki guidelines ==[reply]

Seeing this article made me fully appreciate the Wikipedia guidelines about avoiding opinions and generalizations. Not even a professional PR campaign would tolerate this amount of subjective fluff and nonsense. Worldwide recognition that Morandi is on the same level as Picasso? I could start a Wikipedia page about my grandmother and say her still-lifes are universally regarded as the equal of Morandi's. That would probably be closer to the truth. On the other hand, I arrived at this page because I needed to look up Milton Glaser, and was surprised to see he had studied a long time with Morandi. Teaching the finest American graphic designer/illustrator of the 1960s is no small achievement, and there might be many more this article fails to mention. Hundreds of artists are hard to evaluate because their styles are too cutting-edge, extreme, explosive, or 'far-out'. It took centuries to figure out what to think about El Greco, for instance. Morandi has the opposite problem - his style is so gray, wimpy, wishy-washy/washed-out, timid, and utterly boring that he manages to be even more controversial and divisive than any other painter I know - opinions are sharply polarized. Before the argument resumes, try this exercise: Look at a Cezanne still life for a while. Then look at a Morandi. It's the difference between having good sex with someone you love versus sitting alone with a glass of stale warm beer watching grey static on a broken TV. (And yes, I have one or twice found myself pulled in by Morandi at museums, and yes, I do see what the fuss is about, I can see he's very good at what he sets out to do. But why not do something more interesting?) It would make sense to find juicy quotes from worthy sources offering opinions on Morandi and his work. Even long quotations would be acceptable in this case, I should think, because the subject (and the reasons why he's important) is so elusive.