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In addition to animating the world, the artistic imagination seeks imagery able to express the entire complexity of human existential experience through singular condensed images. This paradoxical task is achieved through poeticized images, ones which are experienced and lived rather than rationally understood. Giorgio Morandi's tiny still lives are a stunning example of the capacity of humble artistic images to become all‐encompassing metaphysical statements. A work of art or architecture is not a symbol that represents or indirectly portrays something outside itself; it is a real mental image object, a complete microcosm that places itself directly in our existential experience and consciousness.