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Amedeo Modigliani suffered from different illnesses like pleurisy and tuberculosis at different points in his childhood as a result of which he wasn’t enrolled at a school. He was instead home schooled by his mother in his early life.
The moment he recovered his mother obliged, and realising how deep his passion for the arts ran, she enrolled him with the best painting master in the city, Guglielmo Micheli. Modigliani...
A reversal in fortune occurred to this prosperous family in 1883. An economic downturn in the price of metal plunged the Modiglianis into bankruptcy. Ever resourceful, Modigliani's mother used her social contacts to establish a school and, along with her two sisters, made the school into a successful enterprise.
Sep 12, 2013 · In August 1898, when he was fourteen years old and still attending his local school, Amedeo had his first artistic tuition when, as the youngest pupil, he attended drawing lessons at the workshop of the Livorno-born artist, Guglielmo Micheli, who had, on the ground floor of Villa Baiocchi, set up and directed a school of design, which many ...
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In 1906, at the age of 21 and driven to develop his career as an artist, Modigliani left Italy and went to Paris. It was there in the Montmartre district where he met many avant-garde artists and his future patron Paul Alexandre at Le Bateau Lavoir. He met significant artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and worked with painter...
During his time in Paris, Modigliani also became loosely involved in the Fauvismart movement. Fauvist works can be characterized by energetic brushwork and intense colors as a means of conveying the emotional state of the artist. The Fauves, which translates as “wild beasts” were a collection of French painters, the most notable among them being He...
In 1917 Modigliani premiered in a ‘notorious’ one-man show at the Berthe Weill gallery. A large group of people gathered outside to view the nude hanging in the window. This attracted the police who then proceeded to shut down the one and only solo show in his lifetime on grounds of obscenity. The nudes were considered scandalous and indecent becau...
While Modigliani lived and worked in Le Bateau-Lavoir, he met the student Jeanne Hébuterne who became his lover, common-law wife and muse. She became a principal subject in his art. Although Modigliani and Hébuterne’s social circle strengthened to include Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, and André Derainthey left Paris to escape the war. While...
Modigliani was little known outside Paris while he lived. In the century since his death, his portraits and nudes have taken their place among the most significant paintings of the 20thcentury. In 2015 Modigliani’s painting Nu Couché – sur le côté gauche (Reclining Nude) sold for a nine-figure sum at Christie’s in New York and is among the most exp...
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In Italy as a young man, he enrolled in art schools in Livorno, Florence and Venice, where he dutifully studied academic painting and life drawing.
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Restless for new opportunities, Modigliani moved to Venice and enrolled in the Scuola Libera di Nudo at the Istituto di Belli Arti, which he found overly traditional in its curriculum. He discovered a preference for art-making amid the atmosphere of the local bars and cafés, where he was introduced to illicit substances.
