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    Modigliani
    Modigliani
    Modigliani
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    Modigliani

    By Victoria Charles

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    Modigliani (1884-1920) was a painter of great unhappiness in his native Italy and felt only sorrow in his adopted country of France. Out of this discontent came forth Modigliani’s original work, which was influenced by African art, the Cubists, and drunken nights in Montparnasse.
    His portrayal of women—sensual bodies, almost aggressive nudity, and mysterious faces—expresses their suffering and feelings of being unloved and unjustly disregarded. Modigliani died at the age of 36.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781781606001
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    Modigliani - Victoria Charles

    Author: Victoria Charles

    © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA

    © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA

    ISBN 978-1-78160-600-1

    All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world.

    Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

    Victoria Charles

    Amedeo

    Modigliani

    TABLE OF CONTENT

    From Tradition to Modernism A Reinterpretation of Classical Works

    Discovery of New Art Forms

    The Nudes and Moral Values

    An Unconscious Liberation

    The Art of Close-Up

    Emotional Involvement A Depersonalizing Process

    An Aesthetic Quest

    Conclusion

    Biography

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    1. Self-Portrait, 1919.

    Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm. Museu de Arte

    Contemporanea da Universidade de San Paulo, Brazil.

    Amedeo Modigliani was born in Italy in 1884 and died in Paris at the age of thirty-five. He was Jewish, with a French mother and Italian father, and so grew up amidst three cultures. A passionate and charming man who had numerous lovers, his unique vision was nurtured by his appreciation of his Italian and classical artistic heritage, his understanding of French style and sensibility, in particular the rich artistic atmosphere of Paris at the turn of the 20th century, and his intellectual awareness inspired by Jewish tradition.

    Unlike other avant-garde artists, Modigliani painted mainly portraits – typically unrealistically elongated with a melancholic air – and nudes, which exhibit a graceful beauty and strange eroticism.

    In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, the centre of artistic innovation and the international art market. He frequented the cafes and galleries of Montmartre and Montparnasse, where many different groups of artists congregated. He soon became friends with the post-impressionist painter (and alcoholic) Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955) and the German painter Ludwig Meidner (1844–1966), who described Modigliani as the last, true bohemian (Doris Krystof, Modigliani).

    Modigliani’s mother sent him what money she could afford, but he was desperately poor and had to change lodgings frequently, sometimes abandoning his work when he had to run away without paying the rent. Fernande Olivier, the first girlfriend in Paris of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), describes one of Modigliani’s rooms in her

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