[PDF] Hommage à Modigliani - Architecture

What is Modigliani's style?

À partir de ce qu'il admire — statuaire antique et renaissante, art africain, oriental, contemporain —, Modigliani trouve son style. En mars 1911 il expose plusieurs têtes de femmes avec des esquisses et des gouaches dans le grand atelier de son ami Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.

Was Modigliani a grand sculptor syncrétique?

Si l’ambition première de Modigliani était d’être un grand sculpteur syncrétique, alors ses portraits constituent « une sorte d’échec réussi ».

Who is Giuseppe Modigliani?

“Modigliani is a deeply Italian painter, and he’s clearly interested in the language of the body, which is the language of Italian art,” says Griselda Pollock, an art historian at England’s University of Leeds who wrote about the nudes for the Jewish Museum’s exhibition catalog.

Did Modigliani have a home in Europe?

“As an artist,” Modigliani liked to say, quoting Nietzsche, “a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.” Arriving there in 1906 at age 21, Modigliani emerged from his second-class train compartment wearing a smartly tailored black suit and a dramatic black cape.