Talk:Giorgio Morandi

message: This is pretentious, bullshit art talk. The word you are looking for is style. Or perhaps technique, mode, etc. Idiom comes from the word for language, and retains this history in its use. It has no application here except as a figurative contrivance inappropriate for this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnDavidBurgess (talk • contribs) 22:51, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Typical example of incorrect, ambiguous use of a word. I replaced "idiom" with "style." How does it look?Lestrade (talk) 21:44, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This use of "idiom" is commonplace in visual arts writing, and is no more pretentious than "style". Here's definition 2 from Oxford American Dictionaries: "a characteristic mode of expression in music or art : they were both working in a neo-Impressionist idiom." If we want to get hyper-pedantic,  "style" comes from a word for writing instruments & retains this use; "idiom" derives from idios: one's own, private, peculiar. Morandi's early works adopted the Cubists' characteristic monochrome and peculiar treatment of form. Either word serves. Ewulp (talk) 00:49, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idiom? 

message: Seeing this article made me fully appreciate the Wikipedia guidelines about avoiding opinions and generalizations. Not even a professional PR campaign would tolerate this amount of subjective fluff and nonsense. Worldwide recognition that Morandi is on the same level as Picasso? I could start a Wikipedia page about my grandmother and say her still-lifes are universally regarded as the equal of Morandi's. That would probably be closer to the truth.
On the other hand, I arrived at this page because I needed to look up Milton Glaser,  and was surprised to see he had studied a long time with Morandi. Teaching the finest American graphic designer/illustrator of the 1960s is no small achievement, and there might be many more this article fails to mention.
Hundreds of artists are hard to evaluate because their styles are too cutting-edge, extreme, explosive, or 'far-out'. It took centuries to figure out what to think about El Greco, for instance. Morandi has the opposite problem - his style is so gray, wimpy, wishy-washy/washed-out, timid, and utterly boring that he manages to be even more controversial and divisive than any other painter I know - opinions are sharply polarized.  
Before the argument resumes, try this exercise: Look at a Cezanne still life for a while. Then look at a Morandi. It's the difference between having good sex with someone you love versus sitting alone with a glass of stale warm beer watching grey static on a broken TV. (And yes, I have one or twice found myself pulled in by Morandi at museums, and yes, I do see what the fuss is about, I can see he's very good at what he sets out to do. But why not do something more interesting?)
It would make sense to find juicy quotes from worthy sources offering opinions on Morandi and his work. Even long quotations would be acceptable in this case, I should think, because the subject (and the reasons why he's important) is so elusive.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chelydra (talk • contribs) 18:06, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The above contains numerous instances of extremely personal, subjective, individual opinion. As with all art, appreciation and love of Morandi's work is based on taste or individual liking. In the case of visual, intuitive art, the liking is not usually verbally, discursively communicable. This state of affairs is reminiscent of Spinoza’s claim in Ethics, Part 4, Proposition 19: "According to the laws of his own nature each person necessarily desires that which he considers to be good…." 96.235.138.179 (talk) 01:12, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outrageous violations of Wiki guidelines 

message: If his parents were called Andrea and Maria Maccaferri, where did the name Morandi come from?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valetude (talk • contribs) 15:37, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, forgot to sign the above. Valetude (talk) 15:40, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: His father was Andrea Morandi and his mother was Maria Morandi (née Maccaferri). I have adjusted the article. See, e.g. it:Giorgio Morandi. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:51, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname 

message: I'd like to do some work on this article, and in particular to improve the references. Would anyone mind if to that end I changed the referencing system to list-defined? I'll probably do so in a day or two if no-one objects. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:10, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I've just removed a bit of stuff that I described as "unwanted gallery publicity". Made me think, is there really such a thing as "wanted gallery publicity"? Why do we need a puff for Zwirner here, for example? I suggest removing all references to commercial galleries. Of course art dealers try to make money by selling his work, that's what art dealers do; but it doesn't tell us anything about him or the work that I can see. Thoughts? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:10, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think links to other articles are fine. But I'd agree some moderation is needed. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:45, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unwanted gallery publicity 

message: The Biography" section claims that "Morandi died of lung cancer...." In accordance with this, the photograph shows his pack of "Nazionali" cigarettes on the newspaper, next to a waiting ashtray.96.235.138.179 (talk) 00:50, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Habit

message: Two links to Kingdom of Italy, one piped and one not, were removed here with the edit summary "MOS:GEOLINK". I believe that the links are useful as that kingdom is an historical entity that no longer exists. I do not believe that the MOS:GEOLINK guideline forbids such linking. We don't say that Giotto was born in Italy, or that Alphonse Mucha was born in the Czech Republic? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:48, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]