"Modigliani painted human beings" (page 6).
Quoting Modigliani, from a letter to a friend:
"Your real duty is to save your dream . . . Every obstacle we overcome marks an increase in our willpower and produces the necessary and progressive renovation of our aspiration. You must hold sacred . . . all that may exalt and excite your intelligence. Seek to provoke and multiply all such stimulating forces . . ." (page 16). Words to live by -- where possible.
And finally: "[Modigliani's] art was the point of impact between his conservative, middle-class origins and the world whose social and political framework had . . . disintegrated" (page 110). Nicely put.
For more, see: Anette Kruszynski, Amedeo Modigliani: Portraits and Nudes. Munich: Prestel, 2007. Originally published in 1996. Translated by John Brownjohn, with copy-editing by Anne Heritage. An assortment of individual paintings are discussed, as well as their context.
Today's Rune: Flow.
6 comments:
Thanks.
I'm not sure that with the rise of Dada and it's antiwar anti 1% would rally have been seen by Modigliani as the social structure collapsing around him as much as a new construct emerging.
Every obstacle overcome leads to a new obstacle
Now I feel like spending the day immersing myself in art. Darn work...
Erik-'Save your dream', wish I had the talent to personally do that!
Hi, Erik!
For its time Amedeo Modigliani was very beautiful and also very misunderstood. His death was very early and also his muse. The book should be interesting and maybe turn into film. If it no longer exists. Among those who sell art, his works besides guys, have a great chance of being fake, added to the fact that a complete inventory of what he produced not exist, it's almost impossible to trade. Particularly like "Boy with striped sweater" fleeing from what he produced. Who was the boy?
It seems that in his paintings has ciphertexts of spiritualism, Symbols of the Kabbalah, Symbols of alchemy...
Beijus,
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