Montparnasse

Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who never was successful during his lifetime. He mainly worked in Paris and his main subject was portraits and full figures of humans. He is known for portraying nude women in a modern style. In Paris, he met prominent Artist’s such as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brancusi. The movie basically covers his life in Paris, centering on his relationship with Picasso and his lover Jeanne. In this movie, Modigliani is being masterfully depicted by Andy Garcia. The Movie begins with the sad face of Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zylberstein), the woman Modigliani fell in love with. She starts to talk about love and asks the audience if they ever experienced real love. She is so sorrowful with spiritless eyes. Modigliani is portrayed as a very talented and handsome man, flirting with Jeanne, a Catholic woman. Despite his talent, his artwork was not received well and he lived in poverty, addicted to alcohol. Jeanne posed for him in his small studio, and after some time they fall in love. He did not paint like other artists, he had his own way of painting. His style is characterized by elongation of objects, and he states that he won’t paint Jeanne eyes before he understands her soul fully. He loved art and could get completely immersed in it. In order to support his family, Modigliani tried to earn money but that was not at all easy for him, since he had a great rival in Pablo Picasso. Jeanne became pregnant, but her…

Much like Callaghan struggled to redeem control from under Parisian and Hemingway’s influences, John Glassco in Memoirs of Montparnasse endeavored to find and regain power over his narrative. Memoirs of Montparnasse was a delicate attempt to define himself and proclaim his Canadian identity amongst the modernist project in Canada. In Memoirs of Montparnasse, Glassco offers his readers an unconventional history of modernism with other opportunities in the ongoing battle to establish the ground…

• Marius stumbles upon Eponine, he is grateful to her but is not excited to see her, and he does not even recognize her at first. • Eponine says good evening to Marius and walks away. • The next day, Marius makes his way to the Rue Plumet before heading to the garden. Eponine is following him. • Her father and his fellow bandits ask why she is there, she explains that she is there because she can. • Eponine changes the subject, tries to hug her father and asks about her mother. Her father is…

The most famous work of Man Ray is recognized as "The violin of Ingres", became iconic images of the twentieth century. I pose for this picture of Kiki de Montparnasse notorious (Kiki de Montparnasse) - muse of famous artists of Paris. The work of Man Ray - something like a photographic pun, "untranslatable play on words", and accurate manner. "Ingres violin" - the literal translation of the French idiom violon d'Ingres (literally, it was his "strong point", his weakness, his favorite pastime).…

partly Americanized, with many American writers entering the scene and writing about their own journeys abroad. However, Morley Callaghan’s That Summer in Paris and John Glassco’s Memoirs of Montparnasse challenged that narrative. Callaghan and Glassco…

Eugene Ionesco was born on November 26, 1909, in Romania. Ionesco’s parents moved to France when he was an infant, but returned to Romania when he was sixteen. Soon after this move his parents divorced. He studied French literature at the University of Bucharest. Ionesco married Rodicia Burileanu, and they had one daughter together. He wrote several unusual children's stories for their daughter. During WWII, Ionesco moved his family back to France and lived in Marseilles. After the war, they…

Luce was born in 1858 to modest parents, Charles-Désiré Luce (a railway clerk), and Louise-Joséphine Dunas. Luce and his parents lived in the Montparnasse, a working class district of Paris, France. Luce attended school at l’Ecole Communale, starting in 1864. At the age of fourteen (1872), Luce began an apprenticeship with the wood-engraver Henri-Théophile Hildibrand (1824–1897). During his three year xylography apprenticeship, Luce also took oil painting classes at night with instructors…

Response to Photograph Black and White of Man Ray Shot in 1926, the main part of the photo Black and White is a woman holding a sculpture as an African ceremonial mask of sorts. The name of this picture is because of the black and white photography’s procession and that white woman as well as the African mask whose color is black. In this photo, both model Kiki de Montparnasse and African ceremonial mask are eyes closing and peaceful. Yet this photo is not just showing the beautiful model Kiki…

School of Fine Art in Hangzhou. Though disappointed by the academy’s dogmatic training of professional Chinese painting and European neoclassicism, which he regarded as lifeless, Zao was inspired and encouraged by Wu Dayu and Lin Fengmian to pursue his own interest in seizing the nature and harmony that he found in literati paintings and works by European masters such as Klee and Matisse. After graduating in 1941, Zao became a teaching assistant in National School of Fine Art which had moved to…

“I wished nevertheless, standing there at the bar, that I had been able to find in myself the force to turn and walk out- to have gone over to Montparnasse perhaps and picked up a girl. Any girl. I could not do it” (42). Even far away from his friends and family, David does not want to start a queer relationship. It would be so much easier on his conscious to pick up a woman. When he begins talking with Giovanni he feels afraid.“Now I was in the zoo, and they were watching” (38). He became…