I discovered this image, and others, through my friend Ron’s newsletter.
Giorgio Morandi was an early 20th century Italian painter, known for his sparse still lifes. Over the course of 40 years, he painted over 1000 pieces, largely of the same general subject matter, bottles on a table. The bulk of the bottle paintings are muted, nearly monochromatic, and it’s fascinating to see both the progression, and uniformity, across such a large body of work. In a creative world saturated with gear and technique and novelty, Morandi has been a great reset for considering what is actually worth focusing on.
I was hooked by painting over 1,000 pieces of roughly the same thing. Beautiful.
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