Sometimes stereotypes live up to expectations. Paris has long been known as a city of artists, where aspiring painters/poets/writers go to light the spark of creativity that will make them famous. Of course most of them fail, but some succeed, and that feeds the legend. Pablo Picasso was one of the success stories. Picasso went to Paris in 1900, when he he was 19, unknown, and striving to find his own style. Paris was full of avant-garde artists and the galleries were displayed the work of artists such as Modigliani, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. Picasso got to meet many of these big names. This photo, courtesy Wikimedia Commons, shows from left to right Modigliani, Picasso, and ...
Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Impressionist painter who lived in avant garde Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. He lived a lively, drunken, drug comatosed existence but produced some of the most vivid and exciting figurative images of the time. Ill health and addiction finally got the better of him and he died young aged only 35.
Il était peintre de portraits, de nus, sculpteur, dessinateur… Son style de peinture, inédit, on le reconnaît au premier regard. Et puisqu’il est unique, on l’appelle fréquemment par son nom – le style Modigliani. La toute première exposition en République tchèque d’Amedeo Modigliani, organisée par la galerie pragoise Vernon, est à voir jusqu’au 28 février à la Maison municipale (Obecní dům) de Prague.…
la proposta di matrimonio di Amedeo Modigliani a Jeanne Hébuterne Parigi 1919 - cctm collettivo culturale tuttomondo a noi piace leggere
Oil on canvas; 100.2 x 65.1 cm. Modigliani was born into a Jewish family of merchants. As a child he suffered from pleurisy and typhus, which prevented him from receiving a conventional education. In 1898 he began to study painting. After a brief stay in Florence in 1902, he continued his artistic studies in Venice, remaining there until the winter of 1906, when he left for Paris. His early admiration for Italian Renaissance painting—especially that of Siena—was to last throughout his life. In Paris Modigliani became interested in the Post-Impressionist paintings of Paul Cézanne. His initial important contacts were with the poets André Salmon and Max Jacob, with the artist Pablo Picasso, and—in 1907—with Paul Alexandre, a friend of many avant-garde artists and the first to become interested in Modigliani and to buy his works. In 1908 the artist exhibited five or six paintings at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1909 Modigliani met the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, on whose advice he seriously studied African sculpture. To prepare himself for creating his own sculpture, he intensified his graphic experiments. In his drawings Modigliani tried to give the function of limiting or enclosing volumes to his contours. In 1912 he exhibited at the Salon d’Automne eight stone heads whose elongated and simplified forms reflect the influence of African sculpture. Modigliani returned entirely to painting about 1915, but his experience as a sculptor had fundamental consequences for his painting style. The characteristics of Modigliani’s sculptured heads—long necks and noses, simplified features, and long oval faces—became typical of his paintings. He reduced and almost eliminated chiaroscuro (the use of gradations of light and shadow to achieve the illusion of three-dimensionality), and he achieved a sense of solidity with strong contours and the richness of juxtaposed colors. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 increased the difficulties of Modigliani’s life. Alexandre and some of his other friends were at the front, his paintings did not sell, and his already delicate health was deteriorating because of his poverty, feverish work ethic, and abuse of alcohol and drugs. He was in the midst of a troubled affair with the South African poet Beatrice Hastings, with whom he lived for two years, from 1914 to 1916. He was assisted, however, by the art dealer Paul Guillaume and especially by the Polish poet Leopold Zborowski, who bought or helped him to sell a few paintings and drawings. Modigliani was not a professional portraitist; for him the portrait was only an occasion to isolate a figure as a kind of sculptural relief through firm and expressive contour drawing. He painted his friends, usually personalities of the Parisian artistic and literary world (such as the artists Juan Gris and Jacques Lipchitz, the writer and artist Jean Cocteau, and the poet Max Jacob), but he also portrayed unknown people, including models, servants, and girls from the neighborhood. In 1917 he began painting a series of about 30 large female nudes that, with their warm, glowing colors and sensuous, rounded forms, are among his best works. In December of that year Berthe Weill organized a solo show for him in her gallery, but the police judged the nudes indecent and had them removed. In 1917 Modigliani began a love affair with the young painter Jeanne Hébuterne, with whom he went to live on the Côte d’Azur. Their daughter, Jeanne, was born in November 1918. His painting became increasingly refined in line and delicate in colour. A more tranquil life and the climate of the Mediterranean, however, did not restore the artist’s undermined health. After returning to Paris in May 1919, he became ill in January 1920; 10 days later he died of tubercular meningitis. Little-known outside avant-garde Parisian circles, Modigliani had seldom participated in official exhibitions. Fame came after his death, with a solo exhibition at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in 1922 and later with a biography by André Salmon. For decades critical evaluations of Modigliani’s work were overshadowed by the dramatic story of his tragic life, but he is now acknowledged as one of the most significant and original artists of his time.
L'artista francese Francoise Collandre è nata a Parigi nel 1939. Ha studiato alla rinomata Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Métiers d'Art a Parigi. Ha ricevuto il riconoscimento per il suo lavoro nella fase iniziale da parte della critica e ha vinto numerosi premi. Il suo lavoro ricorda i suoi predecessori, i Fauves nella sua scelta di colore, i cubisti nella sua composizione della forma, e anche le figure esagerate e allungate di Modigliani. Ha esposto il suo lavoro dal 1981. ed esso ha continuato ad essere tenuto nella massima considerazione e può essere trovato in collezioni pubbliche e private negli Stati Uniti e in Europa. Collandre coglie in ogni gesto poetico dei suoi personaggi isolati momenti riflettenti e romantici. www.collandre.com/
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"Albero e case" è un dipinto autografo di Amedeo Modigliani realizzato con tecnica a olio su tela nel 1919, misura 55 x 46 cm. ed è custodito in una collezione privata a Parigi. Modigliani nel periodo del suo soggiorno presso la Costa Azzurra realizzò anche quattro composizioni a tema paesaggistico.
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