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Even people who don't know much about art can tell you something about Amedeo Modigliani, the dissolute wild man of Montparnasse, wolfishly handsome, penniless, tubercular, drinking his way toward an early grave while sweeping up his superabundance of lovers, the last of them Jeanne Hebuterne, the art-school student who was carrying his child when he died and who would take her own life the next day. It's no surprise that there's a movie of his life on the way, starring Andy Garcia. The surprise is that it took so long...
After World War I Parisian painters went back to nature. They may have taken a rest from challenging artistic fundamentals, but they still had no time for bourgeois morality. A room devoted to nudes painted between the wars is frankly erotic, including the Italian Amedeo Modigliani's lush Reclining Nude of 1919. Less familiar are the delicate Youki, Snow Goddess (1924), by the Japanese Tsuguharu Foujita, who lies against frozen whiteness protected by an alert and sharp-featured dog, and Marcel Gromaire's Seated Nude (1929), sporting fashionable bobbed hair and a wide-collared coat slung around her shoulders...
Surprisingly, all the portraits are of women, yet it is not surprising that they were done by men. The men are signified by objects such as musical instruments and bottles. None of the women stare out at the viewer. Even Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of a Girl, which is the only complete frontal portrait in the show, has eyes covered with aquamarine paint, making her eyeslits seem like precious stones. As girlish as she looks, she seems on the verge of womanhood. Picasso's Woman in a Turkish Costume dissects the sitter and renders her face with the same ostentation...
...Amedeo Odoni, professor of aeronautics and astrophysics at MIT, said the New Democracy Party was not dealing with Greece's major economic problems, adding that people wanted a responsible party...
...Amedeo Modigliani died at 35 of tuberculosis and the cumulative ravages of drink and drugs. Amedeo means "beloved of God," but Modigliani died bone poor and with no hint of the acclaim his paintings would posthumously receive. Yet the play at Greenwich Village's Astor Place Theater is full of fun, fire and faith, a boozy tribute to art, love and the strange creative uses of adversity...