MODIGLIANI 1/9THE BEGINNING OF HIS LIFE

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18841920

FIRST PART THE BEGINNING OF HIS LIFE. PART TWO ART STUDENT YEARS. THIRD PART MICHELI AND THE MACCHIAIOLI.PART FOUR EARLY LITERARY INFLUENCES.PART FIVE PARIS, ARRIVAL.PART SIX TRANSFORMATION.PART SEVEN OUTPUT, SCULPTURE, QUESTION OF INFLUENCES.PART EIGHTH THE WAR YEARS , JEANNE HÉBUTERNE.PART NINTH NICE, DEATH, LEGACY, CINEMA.

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SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.

Seated-Nude, 1909 Portrait-of-Maude-Abrantes, 1907

Portrait of a Woman, 1907

Early life Modigliani was born into a

Jewish family in Livorno, Italy. A port city, Livorno had long served as a refuge for those persecuted for their religion, and was home to a large Jewish community. His maternal great-great-grandfather, Solomon Garsin, had immigrated to Livorno in the 18th century as a refugee.[1]

Red Nude, 1917

Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl, 1917

Modigliani was the fourth child of Flaminio Modigliani and his French wife, Eugenia Garsin. His father was a money-changer, but when his business failed, the family lived in poverty. Amedeo's birth saved the family from ruin, as according to an ancient law, creditors could not seize the bed of a pregnant woman or a mother with a newborn child.

Seated Nude, 1918 Dedie Hayden, 1918

The bailiffs entered the family's home just as Eugenia went into labour; the family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of her.

Modigliani had a close relationship with his mother, who taught him at home until he was ten. Beset with health problems after an attack of pleurisy when he was about eleven, a few years later he developed a case of typhoid fever. When he was sixteen he was taken ill again and contracted the tuberculosis which would later claim his life.

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After Modigliani recovered from the second bout of pleurisy, his mother took him on a tour of southern Italy: Naples, Capri, Rome and Amalfi, then north to Florence and Venice.[2][3][4]

His mother was, in many ways, instrumental in his ability to pursue art as a vocation. When he was eleven years of age, she had noted in her diary:

  "The child's character is still so unformed that I cannot say what I think of it. He behaves like a spoiled child, but he does not lack intelligence. We shall have to wait and see what is inside this chrysalis. Perhaps an artist?“ [5]

Portrait of Elvira

Little Girl in Blue, 1918

References1. Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson..

pp. 13. 2. Fifield, William (19 June 1978). Modigliani: A Biography. W.H. Allen.

pp. 316. 3. Diehl, Gaston (Reissue edition (Jul 1989)). Modigliani. Crown Pub. pp. 96. 4. Soby, James Thrall (Sep 1977). Amedeo Modigliani. New York: Arno P.

pp. 55. 5. Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson..

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