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Lab #22...from the book "Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artist. There are 52 creative exercises in this book. I used a picture of my Mom from 1956, when she was 18 years old. If my Mom could see this piece of art, she would smile.
From the museum label: Amedeo Modigliani arrived in France from Italy in 1906 and became an important figure in the Parisian bohemian art community. This portrait perfectly illustrates his pared- down painting style, showing a woman with an oblong face, head slightly tilted. The neck is exaggeratedly long and the drooping shoulders accentuate the expressive elongation of the figure. The unseeing eyes with no pupils have the same greyish-blue tone as the background, leaving the impression of a mask with an empty gaze. The silent immobility of the model reinforces this impression of absence, whilst giving her a certain melancholic grace.
The sitter for this painting was a young working class woman from Montparnasse, the neighbor of Modigliani’s Parisian studio. Following principles of pictorial construction pioneered by Cézanne and Picasso, Modigliani manipulated and distorted her form and spacial relationships. Framed within a modest interior, Elvira faces the viewer, leaning on a sharply sloping table seen from above.
The artist’s signature device of leaving the sitter’s eyes blank denies the viewer access to the woman’s inner self and emphasizes formal concerns. The viewer focuses on the continual line that defines the woman’s face, and the contrast between her austere black dress and the actively brushed pale blue background.
There are in fact 3 souls buried under that slab.
Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne (and her unborn baby)
Young Woman
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Creation date: (1918)
Most of Amedeo Modigliani’s works were created during a few hectic years during and right after the First World War. The Italian-born artist moved to Paris in 1906 and dithered for a while between sculpture and painting. He worked a year as an assistant to Constantin Brâncusi, whose perception of form can be traced in Modigliani’s masklike portraits. After quickly gaining a reputation as an eminent draughtsman, Modigliani made his living as a café artiste by drawing hastily executed portraits of the café patrons in the hope of securing a commission for versions in oil.
His works are stylistically hard to place: his influences seem to include the primitive African sculptures that were much in vogue at the time, whose linear, elongated forms instil the subjects of his portraits with a touch of sophisticated modernity, while his colours adhere largely to the relaxed, anti-naturalist palette of cubism.
The National Museum’s female portrait has often borne the title Portrait of Mme Zborowska. Mme Zborowska was married to the Polish poet and art dealer Leopold Zborowski, Modigliani’s close friend and agent. But individual traits were not Modigliani’s style, and it seems likely that the sitter is unknown. It was thanks to Leopold Zborowski that Modigliani achieved at least a modicum of fame during his lifetime. But his breakthrough came too late: Modigliani suffered from tuberculosis, and the artist succumbed to illness and alcohol and drug abuse at the age of thirty-five. His posthumous fame continued to grow, however, and during the 1920s his tragic life and idiosyncratic style became a fixture of European modernism.
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www.visitoslo.com/en/articles/national-museum/
On 11 June 2022 the new National Museum opened in Oslo. This is the largest museum in the Nordics. The new museum now consists of the collections of the former National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.
The new museum has a permanent exhibition of about 6 500 objects. Design, arts and crafts, fine art as well as contemporary art will be exhibited alongside each other. As such, the permanent exhibition highlights interesting connections between different collections that previously have been on show at three different museums. Additionally, audiences will be able to see the most famous paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including The Scream (1893) and Madonna (1894).
The building was designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten, with emphasis on dignity and longevity over sensationalist architecture. Great care was given to achieve a balance with the museum’s surroundings and the existing monuments in the area, such as Oslo City Hall and Akershus Fortress.
The most eye-catching feature of the new museum is the large, illuminated exhibition hall on top of the building. It will be used for temporary exhibitions.
The rooftop terrace offers a unique view of the inner Oslo fjord. The square in front of the main entrance has become an urban meeting place, with benches and a café that invites you in to take a rest.
www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/visit/locations/the-national-mus...
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Amedeo Modigliani psicopictoriografado por Florencio Anton | Trabalho de atelier | Técnica Óleo sobre tela