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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is
currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 20th work to introduce for this
week is “Anna Akhmatova (1911)”.
This work is, a drawing of an
expressionist style with pencil on paper.
Anna Akhmatova was a Russian poet
born in 1889, and was one of the most important Russian poets of the 20th
century.
Modigliani met Anna when she was 21
in Paris in 1910, when he was 26, and she became the first serious love of
Modigliani in his life.
At the time, however, she was
married and was on a honeymoon with her husband in Paris.
Anna was a tall woman with dark
hair, pale skin and grey-green eyes, and she embodied Modigliani's aesthetic
ideals.
The two passionately loved each
other, but after a year Anna returned to her husband and their relationship
ended.
Modigliani was fascinated by Anna's
poetic genius, charismatic beauty, and her long and sensual body, and her such images
had a great impact on Modigliani's artistic development.
Modigliani studied Anna in
connection with a large number of Egyptian reliefs.
The reliefs he studied were buried
with many mourners who wished for eternal life and would comfort and accompany
their souls in the next world, and it seemed that Modigliani, having mystical
nature, had interests in them.
And his interest in the Egyptian
reliefs wishing for the eternal life seems to have been consistent with the
desire of Modigliani who wished Anna’s poetic inspiration and beauty to be
preserved and lasted forever.
Modigliani was fascinated by the
beauty of Anna and her noble and sculptural appearance, which he had seen from
the ancient Egyptian women.
And Modigliani, who had a poetic
and mystical personality, may have imagined Anna in the form of, especially, an
Egyptian Queen among the ancient Egyptian women, seen at the Louvre.
In her memoirs, Anna described
Modigliani's passion for Egyptian art, and it gives us a good understanding of
how Modigliani was impressed with the Egyptian art.
Modigliani tried to reduce the use
of lines as much as possible in this work.
His such efforts seem to be Modigliani's
intentions to convey the theme of this work as efficiently as possible.
With such efforts of Modigliani,
the viewers’ eyes are able to concentrate on her head and pose.
Thank you.
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