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Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) 
Professions: Painter; Sculptor; Plastic Art
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Portrait du sculpteur Oscar Miestchaninoff
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Biography: Modigliani
(b Livorno, 12 July 1884; d Paris, 24 Jan 1920). Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor. While he is acknowledged to be one of the major artists of his generation, he was not as experimental and daring as his contemporaries. The direction of Picasso’s work, for instance, changed radically between 1906 and 1909 as a result of the influence of Cézanne and other styles of art (notably African), but Modigliani’s assimilation of these sources had no such far-reaching consequences. Given Modigliani’s limited subject-matter in painting and sculpture, he achieved an extraordinary range of psychological interpretations of the human face, maintaining his individuality through his distinctive elongations of face or form.
Grove Art excerpts - Electronic ©2003, Oxford Art Online
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