"Nothing is more abstract than reality"
-Giorgio Morandi, 1955

"lemons"

plastic bottle still-life

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Giorgio Morandi collected bottles and vases. He used them to create compostitions that he would then draw and paint. Fellini even featured his work in La Dolce Vita.

Museo Morandi----Tables for One----Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964----BOLOGNA RENDE OMAGGIO AL SUO PITTORE: GIORGIO MORANDI-----il libro di Mauro Aprile Zanetti, dal titolo "La natura morta de La Dolce Vita - Un misterioso Morandi nella rete dello sguardo di Fellini" ---- Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence----GIORGIO MORANDI: Resistence and Persistence ---- ART VIEW; GIORGIO MORANDI: A QUALITY OF PRVATE MEDIATION----Morandi's Tightly Arranged Life--Arts: Still life with ambiguities ----After Mussolini came to power, Morandi also exhibited with the semi-official Novecento group.