Tag Archives: Modigliani

discarding the forced, formal and faked

Orgasms of nihilism. A typically contrarian view, and one that labels Picasso as a minor artist. Essentially, an attack on the formalism intrinsic to modernism which entails a crowding out, indeed suffocation of the spiritual content. Cubism, was after all, … Continue reading

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hunger artists: portraits of ghosts

The theory of Donald Kuspit and a few other less known voices was that Modigliani rehumanized what Picasso had crushed and sucked out. Modigliani was able to connect in his paintings to those live and unpredictable wires – the curse … Continue reading

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modigliani: mad, bad but a light burning bright

Very interesting take on a comparison between Modigliani and Picasso by Donald Kuspit. The point of  departure could be Nietzsche’s oft-cited quote that “god is dead” and with him the head of morality also fell from the guillotine into the … Continue reading

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self hatred: caging the instinct into decoration

Get Back. Get back to where you once belonged. Can art exist if it falls off the precipice into a void where there is no transformational effect on the individual and little or nothing to do with what constitutes the … Continue reading

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modigliani: humanizing the dream within the dream

Its an old question. Its manifestations are like sparks and fleeting, ambiguous forms capable of de-materialization. How do you reconcile the opposites between the sensual and the spiritual? Is defiance and disorder, as Modigliani seemed to imply, the only route … Continue reading

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la boheme : mannered art without manners

Amedeo Modigliani. A minor modernist? ” All that was divine in Modigliani sparkled through a sort of gloom ” It is one of those only the good die young stories, terminating at the premature age of thirty-five. There was no … Continue reading

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THREADS OF HORROR FROM THE "EVIL GENIUS"

“What in effect Caravaggio is doing systematically and deliberately, for the first time in the history of art, is destroying the space between the event in the painting and the people looking at it…” “Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) … Continue reading

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