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Still Life with Very Fine Hatching
Presented by Senor and Senora Jose Luis Plaza 1979
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<p>From a very early stage, Morandi committed himself to still life subjects. He used a stock of bottles, jugs, tins and boxes that he kept in his studio and worked from over a period of almost fifty years. The way light objects press up against dark in Still Life with Very Fine Hatching is emphasised by the close-up viewpoint. All distractions are excluded. The everyday container becomes an object of contemplation, a vessel for the viewer's own imagination.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print etching
21 January 2007 – 5 May 2007
2007-05-05
21 January 2007 – 5 May 2007
2007-05-05
2007-01-21
British Museum (London, UK)
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
2007-01-21
Italian Printmaking 1875-1975
Loan-out
Still Life with Very Fine Hatching
image: 248 × 238 mm
Presented by Senor and Senora Jose Luis Plaza 1979
<p>From a very early stage, Morandi committed himself to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still life</span></a> subjects. He used a stock  of bottles, jugs, tins and boxes that he kept in  his studio and worked from over a period of  almost fifty years. The way light objects press up against dark in Still Life with Very Fine Hatching  is emphasised by the close-up viewpoint. All distractions are excluded. The everyday container becomes an object of contemplation, a vessel  for the viewer's own imagination. </p>
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