Amedeo Modigliani As a key figure in the École de Paris, Modigliani updated the portraits and the nudity, two subjects that have endured throughout the art world's history. Modigliani's portraits are distinct and strongly stylized, each distinctive revealing its sitter's inner life while at the same time being undeniably "Modiglianized," to use the words of one critic. They are labeled by a sense of melancholy, elongated proportions, and mask-like faces influenced by sources like African art and Constantin Brancusi. How Modigliani pictured features like pubic hair and their open, undisguised sexuality scandalized viewers. The subject of three biographical films, Modigliani's... View more
