Modigliani: “When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.”

Modigliani

In the Mind of Great Artists

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“When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.”
Modigliani.

The most famous paintings of Modigliani are the portraits of characters with empty gazes that are not empty.

Those eyes acquire the quality of “eternal.” The door to the soul through which the artist starts to paint and create with little detail and a lot of mystery.

Oval, long faces, distorted necks and slender bodies are characteristic in the art of Modigliani who was a sculptor and was fascinated with African sculpture. His characters slightly contrast the colors that frame them.

Everything is simple. Sometimes, just a line frames the walls of the rooms, sometimes, just a trace simulates a door or a simple angle imprisons the character sitting in a corner. It is like there are no extra brushstrokes.

Amedeo Modigliani reduced the information by liberating the painting of any weird detail and achieved the perfect balance. That calm that paradoxically he could never achieve in his life. Those days of madness, anguish and despair that gave him the title of “damned painter.”

Image: Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne (1919)

Recommended links:

Woman with Blue Eyes, 1918.

Primitivism in Modernity.

The Touch of Modigliani.

School of Paris.

Modigliani and the Modern Nude.

Modigliani and Beatrice Hastings.

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