Thank you! It was very nice. I saw works I had not known existed. Forgeries? I can foresee something as dishonorable as that; especially concerning Modigliani’s work. Where are the experts to sniff- out this sort of fraud?🧑🎨♾️👨🎓
I feel that this could be why he is so loved too, there is something very endearing about the stylistic consistency of their faces, in a similar way to Botecelli or Edward Burne-Jones.
"he made everybody's face look like a mask" - that was the point. he was introduced to ethnic masks by art dealer paul guillaume who also inspired picasso to paint figures with ethnic mask faces.
@@mrrolight .Yes but it is not humane, that is my point. It is seeing a human being as merely an aesthetic object. Don't lecture me, as i know far more than you about the subject.
@@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164 "Don't lecture me, as i know far more than you about the subject" 1. I'm not lecturing you. 2. I have no idea how you can deduce our relative knowledge on the subject, however I doubt you do know more than me. I'm familiar with the world authorities on Modigliani, and you're not one of them... at least you have never published a book on the subject and exposed your knowledge to the world for peer review. I am very happy to be proved wrong and always happy to learn more, so would love you to expand on any fascinating information of which I am currently unaware, though please no conspiracy theory woo, thanks, just facts. 3. I'm not sure you fully understand that "humane" means compassionate and kindly, which has nothing to do with the physical aesthetic. Perhaps "human" would be a better word since, as you claim, the mask-like portraits seek to dehumanise in pursuit of the inanimate aesthetic. This is debatable, I would suggest, and we might like to take Modigliani's own words as a rebuttal of your claim: "I will paint your eyes when I find your soul" he once said in answer to the question of why eye details are sometimes omitted, suggesting that he was absolutely interested in capturing more than the inanimate aesthetic. Of course he may have been lying and you may be right, but what have we got to go off... your word or his?
