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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the greatest museums in the world - I could spend several days in it. I had the chance to stop in NYC on the way back from Turkey in November 2008. The art is absolutely incredible - if you have the chance, go visit it!
Here's my second attempt at Modigliani. I did this with colored pencils.
I sketched out the lady with a regular graphite pencil and forgot that graphite smears! Ugh...
Amedeo Modigliani.
1884-1920.
Ítalía.
1916.
Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz.
Olía á striga.
Expressionismi.
Art Institute Chicago.
Kristján Guðmundsson maí 2009.
When Amedeo Modigliani moved from Italy to Paris in 1906, the leading artists of the avant-garde were exploring the forms and construction of “primitive” objects. Inspired by Paul Gauguin’s directly carved sculptures, Constantin Brancusi, André Derain, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso began to make archaizing stone and wood sculptures. Brancusi, with whom Modigliani developed a close friendship, exerted a strong influence on the Italian; this is particularly obvious in his attempts at carving between the years 1909 and 1915, when he made idol-like heads and caryatids with monumental and simplified forms.
Modigliani’s sculptural concerns were translated into paint in Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater, in which he portrayed his young companion as a kind of fertility goddess. With her highly stylized narrow face and blank eyes she has the serene countenance of a deity, and the artist’s emphasis on massive hips and thighs mimics the focus of ancient sculptures that fetishize reproduction. Both this work and Nude, with their simplified, elongated oval faces, gracefully attenuated noses, and button mouths, suggest the artist’s interest in African masks.
Modigliani painted the human figure almost exclusively and created at least 26 reclining female nudes. Although the impact of Modernist practice on his art was great, he was also profoundly concerned with tradition; the poses of Nude and similar works echo precursors by Titian, Goya, and Velázquez. Nevertheless, Modigliani’s figures differ significantly in the level of raw sensuality they transmit. His nudes have often been considered lascivious, even pornographic, in part because they are depicted with body hair, but perhaps also due to the artist’s reputation for debauchery. His nickname, Modi, rhymes with the French word maudit (accursed), a name he very likely acquired because of his lifestyle. Modigliani died of tuberculosis and complications probably brought on by substance abuse and hard living. The tragic fact that Jeanne Hébuterne, pregnant with their second child, committed suicide the next day has only contributed to the infusion of romantic speculation concerning Modigliani’s work.
Amedeo Modigliani Italian, 1884-1920
Reclining Nude , c. 1919
Oil on canvas
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, 1950
From the placard: Museum of Modern Art
Amadeo Modigliani
Italian 1884 - 1920
Portrait of the artist's wife, Jeanne Hebuterne
1918 oil on canvas
Norton Simon
Modigliani met Jeanne Hebuterne in 1917. After his death in 1920, Jeanne committed suicide, she was nine months pregnant with their second child.
Montmartre is a hill (the butte Montmartre) which is 130 metres high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on its summit and as a nightclub district. The other, older, church on the hill is Saint Pierre de Montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the Jesuit order of priests was founded. Many artists had studios or worked around the community of Montmartre such as Salvador Dalí, Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.