AMEDEO MODIGLIANI paintings

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Amedeo Modigliani

July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920

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Biography

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor. Modigliani was born in Livorno, Tuscany and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906, where he developed his unique style. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends, and by primitive art, Modigliani's ouvre was nonetheless unique. He died at the age of 35.

Born into a Jewish family in Livorno in Italy. Modigliani was the fourth child of Flaminio Modigliani and his French-born wife, Eugénie Garsin. His father was in the money-changing business, but when the business went bankrupt,the family lived in dire poverty. Beset with health problems after a bout of typhoid at the age of 14, two years later he contracted the tuberculosis which would affect him for the rest of his life. He, as well as other family members, experienced clinical depression. Modigliani had a particularly close relationship with his mother, who taught her son at home until he was ten. To help him recover from tuberculosis she took him to Naples and then to Capri to study art.

In 1902, Modigliani enrolled in the Free School of Nude Studies in Florence (Italy) and a year later moved to Venice where he registered to study at the Istituto per le Belle Arti di Venezia. He also read and was influenced by the writings of Nietzsche and Comte de Lautreamont, and believed the only route to true creativity was through defiance and disorder.

In 1906 Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. He settled in Le Bateau-Lavoir, a commune for penniless artists in Montmartre. He became the epitome of the tragic artist, creating a posthumous legend almost as well-known as that of Vincent van Gogh.

During his early years in Paris he was constantly sketching, making as many as 100 drawings a day. However, many of his works were lost -- destroyed by him as inferior, left behind in his frequent changes of address, or given to girlfriends who did not keep them. He was first influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, but around 1907 he became fascinated with the work of Paul Cézanne. Eventually he developed his own unique style, one that cannot be adequately categorized with other artists.

In Modigliani's art, there is evidence of the influence of primitive art from Africa and Cambodia which he may have seen in the Musée de l'Homme, but his stylizations are just as likely to have been the result of his being surrounded by Medieval sculpture during his studies in Northern Italy. A possible interest in African masks seems to be evident in his portraits. In both his painting and sculpture, the sitters' faces resemble ancient Egyptian painting in their flat and masklike appearance, with distinctive almond eyes, pursed mouths, twisted noses, and elongated necks.

During his lifetime he sold a number of his works, but never for any great amount of money. What funds he did receive soon vanished for his habits. Modigliani died on January 24. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.

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