In Montparnasse, he lived amongst an avant-garde set of artists who were seeking to move beyond traditional Western ideas of art and Modigliani exemplified this cosmopolitan approach. His inimitable art style drew from a variety of influences from the European figurative painting tradition to Egyptian and African art. A meeting with the sculptor Constantin Brancusi encouraged Modigliani to look again at his early love, sculpture, and from 1910-1913, he rarely lifted a paintbrush.
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Modi at the RA
The first major art exhibition in Britain for over forty years of the artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) runs at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, until October 15 2006. Modigliani and His Models showcases the artist’s unique take on portraiture, the nude and sculpture. No other modern artist focused so exclusively on the representation of the human form. Born in Tuscany, Italy, Modigliani left his cultured Jewish family to study art in Florence and Venice before moving to Paris in 1906.
In Montparnasse, he lived amongst an avant-garde set of artists who were seeking to move beyond traditional Western ideas of art and Modigliani exemplified this cosmopolitan approach. His inimitable art style drew from a variety of influences from the European figurative painting tradition to Egyptian and African art. A meeting with the sculptor Constantin Brancusi encouraged Modigliani to look again at his early love, sculpture, and from 1910-1913, he rarely lifted a paintbrush.
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In Montparnasse, he lived amongst an avant-garde set of artists who were seeking to move beyond traditional Western ideas of art and Modigliani exemplified this cosmopolitan approach. His inimitable art style drew from a variety of influences from the European figurative painting tradition to Egyptian and African art. A meeting with the sculptor Constantin Brancusi encouraged Modigliani to look again at his early love, sculpture, and from 1910-1913, he rarely lifted a paintbrush.
Irish Art
