Monday, October 16, 2017

Artist of the day, October 16: Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (1884 – 1920) was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures, that were not received well during his lifetime, but later found acceptance. Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance until he moved to Paris in 1906.

Modigliani's Ĺ“uvre includes paintings and drawings. From 1909 to 1914, however, he devoted himself mainly to sculpture. His main subject was portraits and full figures of humans, both in the images and in the sculptures.

A central participant in the Ecole de Paris, Modigliani modernized two of the enduring themes of art history: the portrait and the nude. Characterized by a sense of melancholy, elongated proportions, and mask-like faces influenced by such sources as Constantin Brancusi and African art, Modigliani's portraits are both specific and highly stylized, each uniquely revealing its sitter's inner life, while at the same time unmistakably "Modiglianized," to use the words of one critic.  The subject of three biographical movies, Modigliani's legacy is inextricably bound up with his tragic and bohemian life: his fragile health, which plagued him since childhood; his perpetual pennilessness; and - most famously - his over-the-top, self-destructive lifestyle, which included sexual debauchery and overuse of drugs and alcohol.

The work of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi was perhaps the single most important influence on Modigliani's creative development. Although Modigliani is best known as a painter, he focused on sculpture early on in his career, and, some writers have argued, may have regarded his true calling as that of sculptor.


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 Mr  Amedeo Modigliani

1919, self-portrait

1908, Head of a young woman

1908, Nude with a hat

1909, L'amazone


1915, Bride and groom, the couple

1915, Head of red haired woman

1915, Leon Indenbaum

1915, Little Louise


1915, Woman's head

1916, Chaim Soutine

1916, Christina

1916, Madame Reynouard

1916, Max Jacob

1916, Portrait of Margarita

1916, The Beautiful Confectioner

1917, Elena Povolozky

1917, Jeanne Hebuterne with hat and necklace


1917, Madame Zborowska with clasped hands

1917, Portrait of a Girl

1917, Woman with White Coa

1917, Young Girl in a Striped Blouse

Alice

1918,  Boy in a blue shirt

1918,  Burgundian woman

1918,  Dark young woman seated by a bed

1918,  Germaine Survage with earrings

1918,  Girl with pigtails

1918,  Madame Zborowska

1918, Marie, fille du peuple (La petite Marie)

1918, Portrait of the artist Léopold Survage


1918, Seated young woman

1918, Sitting man on orange background

1918, The Zouave



1918, Young girl in beret

1918, Young girl seated

1919, Annie Bjarne

1919, Gypsy woman with a baby

1919, Jeanne Hebuterne (with a Scarf)

1919, La blonde aux boucles d'oreille


1919, Portrait of a young woman

1919, Woman with a fan,  Lunia Czechowska

1918,  Les deux filles

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