Fiori
Giorgio Morandi
1950
- YEAR:1950
- MEDIUM:Oil on canvas
- DIMENSIONS:30 × 26cm
Introduction
As one of the greatest Italian painters of the 20th century, Giorgio Morandi dedicated the latter part of his artistic career to experimental explorations of still life themes. This Fiori is a representative work of his floral still lifes. Using his well-known gray tones, Morandi depicts a bouquet of roses in a vase, shaping the flowers with the same approach he used for bottles and jars. The background either creates a strong spatial structure with diagonal shadows or contrasts with flat colour blocks, evoking an unreal and tranquil atmosphere. Starting in the 1950s, Morandi replaced fresh flowers with silk and dried flowers, elevating the floral subject—an everyday object—into pure volume and colour. He sought to capture their form and essence, pushing the artistic experiment in this genre to its extreme.
