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Saturday October 7, 2006
Visions of humanity
Have just returned from the Royal Academy exhibition "Modigliani
and his models", and (as Rob observed), my head is just full...
Unlike Kandinsky, Modigliani's work is much more accessible and I am particularly
keen on it.
This is the last week of the exhibition so we turned up at 10 and queued for tickets, but did not have much of a problem getting in, and managed to escape before it became too crowded. Quite a contrast to when I was last there for Monet, which was hopelessly popular.
We began our tour in the last gallery (again, as a crowd avoidance measure - it works until you get back to gallery 1). However, it was desperately sad to hear about the end of his life and even more so that of his lover Jeanne Hébuterne - too sad to talk about here.
This portrait is an unnamed "Woman with a red necklace", painted
in 1918. Text quoted from the gallery descriptions best sums up his work
I feel: "His mastery in these portraits lies in his ability to retain
the essential likeness of an individual while couching her likeness in
his own restricted vocabulary of forms."
Posted by Christina at 4:01 PM. Category: Days Out
