Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani famous Italian painter and sculptor, was born on July 12, 1884 at Livorno and died January 24, 1920 in Paris. Even though it was of Italian origin, it has been operating in France and was representative of the "Parisian School." Although he had a short life, the painter has made an opera elegant, refined, beyond the barriers placed mannerism.

His entire life, Modigliani was on in search of the perfect beauty with abstract touches a frumustete that could synthesize ideal combination of dreams and concrete. As key reasons we see his paintings with female nudes and portraits, in which either friends of the painter, is unknown.

Amedeo Modigliani was born into a Jewish Italian family. His father was a merchant in Rome, and in the early years of Amadeo's life, his father's company went bankrupt. Besides financial situation precarious in the early years, the future artist was faced with serious health problems. At just 11 years has been affected by a serious lung disease, and after three years became ill with typhus.

This was the period in which Modigliani painting discovered and asked his mother to let him take drawing lessons. Thus, in the summer of 1898, Amedeo began to attend the workshop of Guglielmo Micheli, a painter from Livorno. Here he made many portraits and still-life paintings.

For health worsened again and he was forced to spend the winter in Naples and Amalfi, cities with mild climates. He recovered and in 1902 he joined the "School of Nudes" in Florence, which was led by Giovanny Fattori, then studied at the "Institute of Fine Arts" in Venice.

In 1906, Amedeo Modigliani decided to move to Paris. At this point he found a home in Montmarte district and attended the "Academie Colarossi." In a very short time, Modigliani become a known bars in the area, occurring every time a picturesque character, his corduroy coat, red scarf around his neck and sunshade.

Paris art come to know the characters of the time and Diego Rivera, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Apollinaire Gullaume of writers, Max Jacob and André Salmon.

At first, Modigliani's style was not exactly defined, nor have the ease, a naturalness when it came to his execution, and they oscillate between Fauvism, Expressionism and Toulouse-Lautrec's pastisarea.

Dr. Paul Alexandre greatly admire paintings and send their works performed in "Salon of Independent Artists." Here, in the spring of 1980, Amedeo Modigliani had six paintings on display.

The following year, the artist moved from the first quarter in Falguiere Cite, Paris neighborhood where Constantin Brancusi, with whom Modigliani was also befriended and opened a studio. Sculpture gets new Modigliani's passion, but he did not give up painting. However, enough to expose seven sculptures and gouache, in an exhibition held in 1911 in the studio of an artist Portuguese Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. After a year, Modigliani is known as a sculptor and comes with seven other works from the bed bath and beyond coupon 10th century "Autumn Salon".

Because of physical exhaustion after a while, Modigliani returned home to recover from bed bath and beyond coupon his parents in Livorno.

Then returns to Paris and began to paint again, this time portraits done very quickly, ordered, and field experiences are what give sculpture portraits made him a perfect shape, restoring it in a human face special features.

Of Amedeo Modigliani's personal life are his relationships with British journalist and poet Beatrice Hastings (1914-1916) and a student, Jeanne Hébuterne, which we know in 1917.

They move together, helped by good friend of the painter, Leopold Zborowski, who also organizes Modigliani first solo show. It is about 32 canvases were exhibited at the gallery "Berthe Weill." Some nudes presented in the exhibition were detained by police on the grounds that it would be "immoral". Also in the exhibition, Amedeo Modigliani failed to sell any copies.

Because his health worsened again, he moved to Nice, and a daughter Jeanne was born here. After returning to Paris in late spring bed bath and beyond coupon of 1919, Modigliani painted in "Rue de la Grande Chaumiere" portrelele his friends. After a while everything feels worse, is diagnosed with tuberculous inflammation of the meninges and be hospitalized, following that just 36 years to die.

Amedeo Modigliani's paintings were always expressive and full of tenderness. Porterele and nudes are usually some more distinctive paintings and Italian painter managed to surprise personality patterns, regardless of who painted it. He showed an inclination towards geometrization, used the bed bath and beyond coupon experience as a sculptor and conveyed an atmosphere of melancholy and spiritual peace.