Amedeo Modigliani Biography
Amedeo Modigliani's (07/12/1884 – 01/25/1920), Italian painter and sculptor, a representative of the Paris School. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. From 1906 he lived in Paris. Experienced it influenced by the work A. de Toulouse-Lautrec, P. Cézanne, Picasso and African sculpture. As a sculptor was formed under the influence of C. Brancusi, tending to the simplified Geometrized forms and elongated proportions ("head", limestone, 1913, Gal. Tate, London). Modigliani's painting style, with its decorative flatness, sharp concise songs, musicianship silhouette-linear rhythm, full of color was determined in the early 1910's. In his typically odnofigurnyh paintings – portraits and nudes – Modigliani created a special world of images, intimate and individual, yet similar overall melancholy abstractedly; their original finely nuanced psychology of enlightened poetry combined with a constant, often tragic human insecurity in the world (portrait of L. Zborowski, 1917, Art, Museum of Sao Paulo, "Elvira", 1919, private collection, Berne, "Big Nude", 1919, Museum of Sovrem. Art Society, New York). Lit.: Vilenkin V., Amedeo Modigliani, M., 1970; [Valsecchi M.], Amedeq Modigliani, Mil., 1955; Sishel P., Modigliani. A biography of Amedeo Modigliani, NY, 1967; I dipinti di Modigliani Mil., [1970].