Amedeo Modigliani Research Paper

During the late 1800’s, several art movements began, one of which influenced Amedeo Modigliani, who was a Post-impressionist that painted and sculpted with hints of symbolism. The era led this artist into the twentieth century, where he lived in one of the major epicenters of the modern art movement in Italy. Amedeo Modigliani painted and sculpted numerous pieces of art, one of the most famous pieces being Anna Zborowska. Humans are most commonly products of their era and culture. During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the era of modern art boomed, especially from where Modigliani lived. His style, a mixture of Post-impressionism and symbolism, was developed because of how he learned art, and who his artistic role models were. Post-impressionism, …show more content…
His subjects were almost always women, as he was recalled as a magnet of women, and found them appealing. The composition of his paintings and sculptures included elongated faces, blank eyes, and a generalization of details. His paintings were either made with watercolor and oils on canvas. His sculptures on the other hand were made with fallen limestone that he stole from buildings or wood from oak crossties. Like other artists at this time, he dealt with a lot of deep colors, rather than pastels. His general philosophy of life, since he was slowly dying from tuberculosis over the thirty-five years he lived, was that he wanted to live a quick and intense life, and his art displayed that philosophy with rapid brushstrokes in his paintings. Modigliani had a humanistic flair to his art, as his inspiration was always people. Modigliani was born on Juy 2, 1884 in Livorno, Italy. It was a seaport city and Modigliani remembered it to be bustling with business. He was the fourth child of his parents Flaminio Modigliani and Eugenia Garsin. After his father’s business crashed, the family went into poverty, and his mother opened a small school to save them from starvation and homelessness. His mother taught him until he was ten. At eleven years old, he fell ill with pleurisy, an inflammation of his lungs, and later was sick with typhoid fever, from which he nearly died. He was berated with another cause of pleurisy and after he recovered from that with the help of his mother, he contracted tuberculosis, which would slowly kill him over his next twenty years. Because he knew he didn’t have much time left, he lived wildly, and painted and sculpted with the same philosophy. His mother sent him off to Micheli’s art school, where he was greatly influenced by his mentor and other artists, like Cézanne and Toulouse-Lautrec. Later, he enrolled into the