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Amedeo Modigliani

Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920) · Italy · Artists · Died at 35

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Those elongated necks and faces - surreal, almost alien - bombed in his lifetime and now sell for fortunes. Modigliani painted a modern vision no one wanted until he was gone.

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3 statements, newest first
  1. Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature.

    Attributed without citation at The Art Story., Own words

  2. The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

    Attributed without citation at History of Painters, Own words

  3. With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

    Attributed without citation at History of Painters, Own words

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Born in Italy in 1884, Modigliani studied antiquity and the Renaissance before moving to Paris in 1906, where he fell in with Picasso and Brâncuși. From 1909 to 1914 he focused on sculpture, exhibiting stylised pieces with the Cubists at the Salon d'Automne by 1912. His portraits and nudes - figures stretched into something between classical and strange - found no audience while he lived. He died of tubercular meningitis in Paris in 1920, thirty-five years old, and the work became sought after only after.

Country
Italy
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1884 to 1920 · aged 35

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