Doris Krystof

En odas inacabables a la forma femenina, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) trazó cuerpos alargados, ojos almendrados y su propio nombre en la historia del arte. Sus lánguidas mujeres son instantáneamente reconocibles, ademas de deslumbrantes y sensuales, con su cuello de cisne. La figuracion unica de Modigliani respondia a su idea personal de la belleza, si bien recurrio a diversas influencias visuales, incluidas entre ellas el cubismo contemporaneo, las tallas africanas, las esculturas camboyanas y la pintura del siglo xiii de su Italia natal. Pese a ser celebre sobre todo por sus desnudos femeninos, aplico tecnicas estilisticas similares a retratos de artistas masculinos contemporaneos como Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau y Cham Soutine. Con obras clave de su repertorio sumamente particular, este libro presenta la breve mas reverenciada carrera de Modigliani en el corazon del hervidero del arte moderno temprano que fue Paris.

To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, play and film was based. As an artist, the scandalous Modigliani made his name chiefly with his celebrated pictures of women, with almond eyes and long necks and bodies. His style had ancient roots that lay deep in classical antiquity or Africa. But his portraits of intellectual giants of the age, friends such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau or Diego Rivera, were inimitable also. In Doris Krystof's study, the scene Modigliani was the hero of comes alive, and his sensitive paintings and sculptures speak in tongues.