Giorgio Morandi's still life

Transformation of ordinary objects in Giorgio Morandi's 1956 still life into architectural composition

They are not rhythms and tones and atmosphere, or rather they are all this, but in an organization of an artistic image that can be ideally reconstructed in a plan (...) and various elevations and horizontal and oblique vertical sections in a synthesis that, once it is critically taken apart, offers the viewer the huge capacity of a construction that, as I was saying, is so entirely architectural that we should speak of cathedrals rather than bottles. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Arte Moderna in una raccolta italiana, April-May 1953