Landscape
Technical Details
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Title
Landscape -
Author
Giorgio Morandi -
Year
1941 -
Dimensions
cm 39 x 47.5 -
Inventory
7441 -
Room
48 -
Signature
Morandi 1941
The landscape, of an absolute modernity because of the essentiality of the perspective cuts and the quality of the light, was painted in Grizzana, in the Bolognese Apennines, in the summer of 1941, when the war had not yet taken its tragic toll and Morandi was working intensely, participating in the collection of materials for various publishing initiatives.
The small landscape, intercise, according to a definition by Brandi, is constructed with “a deliberate, intellectualistic and almost abstract spacing,” and according to Vitali’s own words, “was resolved in one sitting, but certainly meditated on for a long time” and does not “disdain his memory of the last Cézanne, and not only because of the extremely light material, but because of the wisdom of the composition in rectangles and trapezoids that meet each other, bathed by a grazing light.”
