Modigliani, Lille, 2016
Today I finally managed to see the Modigliani Exhibition at Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM) in Villeneuve-d’Ascq. This time I was wise enough to go by metro and bus, which took less than half an hour. (I did come back on foot though. It’s such a beautiful day today…)
Pascale has already told us about this exhibition, and from her description and the other things I had seen and heard, I knew I would like Modigliani, but I didn’t expect the profound effect his works had on me.
Amedeo Modigliani is a very special painter. He doesn’t paint people’s bodies or faces; he paints their souls.
If you live anywhere near Lille, I do recommend seeing this exhibition before it ends.
I took photos of some of the paintings, which you can see in the photo gallery below.
Perhaps you’d like to have a look and see if you like any of them too?
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There’s something in Modigliani’s paintings that feels us melancholic. For example the Red-haired Boy or the Mother and Child. I think it’s because the very blue eyes are without pupils and it’s (but it’s my interpretation) because of his own life difficulties. We feel the painter’s solitude and the questions on the sense of his life. About the painting, we know unconsciously that he is Italian, from Toscane. His colours come from this land. He has a foot in traditional painting, the portrait is one of them but anyway an other foot in the direction of research, for instance look… Read more »
I like them all. The painter could show the feelings of his models in detail with simple lines. But my favorites are the two women in black dresses sitting on a chair. One of them has short hair and the other has tied her hair up. She has leaned her head. Everything has been painted in detail and can catch your attention for a while. The colours are bright.
The man sitting on an armchair in a room reminds me of Sadegh Hedayat (an Iranian writer), sitting in his apartment in Paris !
I didn’t have time last week to comment this post. But as today is a rainy and cold public holiday / bank holiday, I have time to drink very slowly my coffee and to work on my English! I have seen this exhibition too at the beginning of April. I took the same pictures of 5 of yours. Three pictures on which the persons look young (like pupils or students) and as if they were sitting for a school picture: A young girl who is wearing a blue dress and has got long blond hair, and two boys on each… Read more »