Modigliani Exhibition Amedeo Modigliani is showing at the Royal Academy of Arts in London until the 15th of October this year. The exhibition is a summary of paintings from his short career, with famous portraits of Jeanne Hebuterne, Beatrice Hastings and Paul Guillaume among the works on display.
Be sure to check out the Modigliani movie too. It wasn't the greatest artist movie I've ever seen (Basquiat still holds that title), but it's still very watchable.
Curves and angles
"Modigliani's technique of stylization - its candid asymmetry, its shared cubist elements, its uneven eyes, the jigsaw fit of the nostrils to the outline of the upper lip - is to spike the mannerist touches with plausible and vivid realistic detail. Diego Rivera's eyes are two navels sunk in flesh, the plump fish lips areminimizedd by the fat moon face. His beard is a seethe of ants. There is an element of brilliant pudgy caricature. Rivera resembles his photograph, but he resembles Modigliani's painting more." Guardian
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