Amedeo Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy in 1884 to an Italian Jewish family, and his parents encouraged his passion for the arts. Modigliani's mother took him to visit cultural institutions all over the country.
Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush.
"One of the really fun things was looking at some of the early paintings where he was painting over canvases that had already been painted upon – sometimes his own canvases, sometimes canvases that had been painted on by a different artist," said chief conservator Barbara Buckley.She found Modigliani often incorporated those underdrawings into his finished pieces."He's using them in really creative ways," Buckley said.
For instance, in his"Portrait of a Girl," the subject looks like she just has dark hair, but in her bangs there are pops of red and blue. In 1906 he moved to the center of the art world: Paris. He was a member of the"School of Paris" – a group of artists living in the City of Light. But he didn't see all his contemporaries as inspiration."Picasso and Braque were developing Cubism, they were working with collage, they were really interested in interrogating pictorial structure," said Kang."Modigliani was interested in something else. And so, this is why he was so dedicated to the figure.
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