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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is
currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 33rd work to introduce for this
week is “Beatrice Hastings, Seated (1915)”.
This work is a portrait of an
expressionist style and an oil painting on canvas with the size of 73.5 x 49.5
cm.
This work is one of many paintings
for modeling Beatrice Hastings by Modigliani.
A columnist for the British weekly magazine,
“New Age”, she came to Paris as a correspondent in Paris in 1914 and met
Modigliani.
Hastings was also a woman who was controversial
because of her unusual attire and behavior.
Modigliani and Hastings were lovers
for two years, sharing alcohol and drugs, constantly fighting, and arguing.
Modigliani was a genius artistic, talented
painter who was famous for wonderfully expressing the characters or
personalities of the models in his paintings.
However, this work is unique in
that it is painted so that the character or personality of Hastings is not
recognized at all.
Painted as simple as if it feels
lacking in expressiveness, it seems like this work shows the reappearance of
Modigliani's regret for the sculpture.
Elongated neck, oval head, curved
and simple contours, everything evokes a sculptural style, especially very
similar to the Caryatid style.
There is also no background
decoration except Hastings' chair and the chair is rounded to match the curved
and rounded model.
Hastings' eyes are drawn without
pupils, giving the impression of seeing the background through the eyes.
The model's face and neck were
tilted to the right for a balanced composition against the model, who is sitting
biased to the left, throughout the canvas.
In addition, Hastings' face and her
body including her wrapped arms are in oval form, and it feels like small and large
ovals are symmetrically attached.
For the colors used, Modigliani used
red and warm colors throughout the work, which make Hastings' shadow look like
black smoke from behind her.
Thank you.
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