 Amedeo Modigliani's work is
recognised immediately by many people because of the typical elongated
shapes. His paintings show his passion for sculpting, a craft which he had
to give up in 1915 due to ill health. He was born in the Tuscan town of
Livorno and received his academic education in Florence and Venice. In
1906 he established himself in the famous Montmartre area in Paris, where
his talent was instantly recognised by the East European avant-garde. He
had a short and eventful artistic life, he was extremely driven and longed
for recognition. But his life was also marked by alcoholism, metaphysical
fears and progressive tuberculosis. At the age of forty, Modigliani left
the world an oeuvre that shows a sincere, obsessive search for truth and
purity within art. |
