Tables for One.(paintings by Giorgio Morandi)

In my ideal world, the home of everyone who loves art would come equipped with a painting by Giorgio Morandi, as a gymnasium for daily exercise of the eye, mind, and soul. I want the ad account: "Stay fit the Morandi way!" Take your dream pick from among the hundred and ten works in the potent retrospective of the Italian modern master now at the Metropolitan Museum. You can hardly go wrong with anything dated after 1920 or so, once Morandi, who died in 1964, at the age of seventy-three, had worked through his early involvements with Cezanne, Cubism, Futurism, and the pittura metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carra. But make your choice a still-life. Morandi ...