Comparison of Juan Sanchez Cotan and Giorgio Morandi

Artwork: Natura Morta
Artist: Giorgio Morandi
Date: 1956
Size: 30.3 x 36.4cm.
Materials: oil on canvas
Located now: unknown private collectionles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes

• Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker who specialized in still life. His paintings are Famous for their tonal delicacy in depicting apparently simple subjects, which were mainly to vases, bottles, bowls, flowers, and landscapes.
• Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna (1890-1964).
• Giorgio studied and trained at Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna where he found inspiration from Cezanne
• In 1915, he joined the army but suffered a breakdown and was indefinitely discharged.
• The tones that Morandi uses in his Still lives are very dull, gloomy and cold colours. The painting has its placement straight in the centre of everything, drawing our attention to the objects in the middle.

Artwork: Quince, cabbage, melon and cucumberArtist: Juan Sanchez CotanDate: 1602
Size: 69x85cmMaterials: using oil on canvas.
Located now: at the San Diego Museum of art.

• Juan Sanchez Cotan was a Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain.
• Juan Sanchez Cotan was born in June 1560 and died in September 8 1627 (aged 67).
• Typically, his greatest paintings were spare, gloriously illusionistic arrangements of fruit and vegetables some of which hang from a fine string at different levels while others sit on a ledge or window.
• In August 1603 he closed his workshop in Toledo to renounce the world and enter a Roman Catholic religious order.
• Quince, cabbage, melon and cucumber by Juan Sanchez Cotan, is a still life artwork which uses everyday objects, fruits and vegetable such as a melon, cut open to reveal its pale pink flesh, a cucumber, a yellow apple, a cabbage with thick leaves.