Word: modigliani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amedeo Modigliani was handsome, sensual, tuberculous, and usually drunk. He hit Paris at 22, soon started a spree that death stopped in 1920, 14 years later. Sober hours he devoted to painting and a little sculpture. His artist friends, including Soutine, Brancusi and Utrillo, thought him great. His acquaintances thought him accursed. The police thought him a nuisance, closed his only one-man show because the nudes in it were so frankly sexy. The public never thought...
Today every art student knows Modigliani's name, and thousands more admire his work. Their numbers have been increased this year by a big Modigliani retrospective show at the Cleveland Museum. Last week the exhibition moved to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It is curiously unmodern: Modigliani cared for neither the bright splashy colors of Matisse nor the fine-chopped complexities of Picasso. People, naked or not, were what he painted...
...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
Like most European artists, Soutine dreamed of Paris. In 1913, when he was 19, he got there. Modigliani and Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz started the proud, lonely youth on the road to fame. "For those who like painting rich in thick, luminous impasto," Lipchitz wrote, "Soutine is the greatest modern master. You can eat his pictures by the spoonful...
...philosophic. There is a large mass of death cells and thunderstorms, bloody hands and lethal highballs; of human beings maddened by guilt, crazed with fear, foul-mouthed from frustration. There is a potpourri of metaphysics from the Gospels to Kierkegaard; of poetry from Marvell to Shelley; of painting from Modigliani to Cézanne...