Amandio Modigliani (1884.7 ~1920.438+0) is a representative figure of Parisian painting school who appeared at the beginning of this century. He was born in Le City (Livorno), Italy, and his father was an old-fashioned Jew. Well-off When Modigliani was young, he would fight to the death when he saw someone insulting Jews. He suffered from lung disease when he was a teenager. Although he wants to be an artist, he is often depressed for health reasons. 1902 was admitted to Venice Academy of Fine Arts. 1906 came to Paris and was initially influenced by Cezanne's works. Later, he met Picasso and others, especially when he was in contact with Romanian Brancusi. He turned to sculpture and made some sculptures.

At this time, he also learned about black carving. Later, due to his acquaintance with the poet Ma Jiebo, he was once infatuated with Dante's Divine Comedy and his poetry creation. From 1909 to 19 13, he created 25 stone statues and 350 oil paintings. This is his most creative period. When the artist was young, he was charming and handsome, but he was troubled by tuberculosis, so he took a negative attitude towards life: alcoholism, femininity and drug abuse. This determines the shortness of his artistic career. Although he is diligent in painting, he lives in poverty. He has a wide range of friends, and he is extravagant when he has money; When he was creating, he worked feverishly and painted in one go. When you are dissolute, you don't cherish yourself, and your lover keeps on. Some women are madly in love with him. When franco modigliani died, Jenny Hepton, a blonde who divorced her family because of love, threw herself on franco modigliani's infectious body, kissed his face all over, and cried not to let the funeral staff push her away. Finally, I jumped off a building nine months pregnant.

Modigliani's creative themes are mostly portraits and nude portraits, with only a few landscapes. He is not a professional portrait painter. I usually paint portraits of friends, Paris artists and my favorite models, and sometimes I paint portraits of maids and neighbors. These preserved portraits are enough to prove this point. His portraits and nude oil paintings are very consistent with his personal inner feelings and his sad world outlook at that time. He likes to lengthen his figure, especially women's necks, which makes their faces exaggerated and deformed, making them sadder, as if there is a kind of depression that is difficult to display their desires, or a kind of depressed spirit of things in front of them. Among them, there are about 30 large nude female images, and the best ones are almost all completed around 19 17. His portrait works have bright colors and rhythmic lines. The face is elongated. Some people commented that this is a simplified three-dimensional painting method, that is, instead of deepening the space, it simplifies the space to make it flat and the shape is elongated. Picasso did the same thing.

In this black-haired girl, we seem to see the painter's interest in ancient medieval art and African mask art. The colors and lines are more simplified, and the eyes only draw a black line. The distance between the mouth and eyes in the east is larger and the face is flatter. At this time, like Rodin, he became interested in primitive art that was not noticed. This brunette can also be regarded as a sign of modigliani's mature personal style. It was made in 19 18 with a size of 66×46 cm, and now it belongs to a private collection in Milan, Italy.

Modigliani's life is short, only 35 years old. Compared with other famous painters in Paris, it is like a flash in the pan. However, this moment left a deep impression in the minds of future generations. Because of his unique artistic deformation, sometimes it is like a prism, reflecting the characteristics of himself and his time, as well as the psychological characteristics of a gifted scholar's self-destruction.