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First prizewinner was Giorgio Morandi, a mild modern who has become, at 58, Italy's favorite artist. Morandi's splendid reputation might be difficult for some exhibition visitors to grasp. It is built on his collection of used bottles, which he arranges in table-top still lifes and paints in a manner as surpassingly empty and dry as the bottles themselves...
...Naples. Italy, 45-year-old Petronio Morandi, eating grapes while he read a newspaper, picked up a small electric light bulb, swallowed it whole...
...down the lines of monumental canvases, critics felt that modern Italian painting had not yet shaken off its shroud. Artists included Giorgio ("Horses") de Chirico, whose work is more frequently identified with Paris than with Rome; Playwright Luigi Pirandello's son Fausto; and the pride of Bologna, Giorgio Morandi, who ponders life so deeply that in his 46 years he has produced less than 20 pictures, most of them still lifes of bottles, candlesticks, tea cups...