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Tag Archives: Modigliani
discarding the forced, formal and faked
Orgasms of nihilism. A typically contrarian view, and one that labels Picasso as a minor artist. Essentially, an attack on the formalism intrinsic to modernism which entails a crowding out, indeed suffocation of the spiritual content. Cubism, was after all, … Continue reading
hunger artists: portraits of ghosts
The theory of Donald Kuspit and a few other less known voices was that Modigliani rehumanized what Picasso had crushed and sucked out. Modigliani was able to connect in his paintings to those live and unpredictable wires – the curse … Continue reading
modigliani: mad, bad but a light burning bright
Very interesting take on a comparison between Modigliani and Picasso by Donald Kuspit. The point of departure could be Nietzsche’s oft-cited quote that “god is dead” and with him the head of morality also fell from the guillotine into the … Continue reading
self hatred: caging the instinct into decoration
Get Back. Get back to where you once belonged. Can art exist if it falls off the precipice into a void where there is no transformational effect on the individual and little or nothing to do with what constitutes the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, jeffrey meyers, meryle secrest, Michel Foucault, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, rachael hayward, Simon Schama, steven fine
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modigliani: humanizing the dream within the dream
Its an old question. Its manifestations are like sparks and fleeting, ambiguous forms capable of de-materialization. How do you reconcile the opposites between the sensual and the spiritual? Is defiance and disorder, as Modigliani seemed to imply, the only route … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged amedeo modigliani, beatrice hastings, Chaim Soutine, D.H. Lawrence, Francisco Goya, Franz Kafka, Holland Cotter New York Times, jeanne hebuterne, jeffrey meyers, linda lappin, Marquis de Sade, meryle secrest, Modigliani
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la boheme : mannered art without manners
Amedeo Modigliani. A minor modernist? ” All that was divine in Modigliani sparkled through a sort of gloom ” It is one of those only the good die young stories, terminating at the premature age of thirty-five. There was no … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, beatrice hastings, Caravaggio, Chaim Soutine, Constantin brancusi, Fernand Leger, georges bracque, Henri Matisse, jeanne hebuterne, Max Horkheimer, meryle secrest, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, soutine
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