Influenced by the work of Giotto, as well as Cézanne, the metaphysical painters, and the cubists, Morandi s work defies any label. His still-lifes and landscapes are serene groupings of muted objects, yet Morandi provokes a tension between them which speaks of spacial relationships, negative space, and nuances of light and color. His paintings seem to exist in a world outside of time, luminous and full of mysterious life.