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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is
currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 64th work to introduce for this
week is “Portrait of Oscar Miestchaninoff” in 1916.
This work is an expressionist style
portrait and an oil painting on a canvas with the size of 46 x 33 cm, and is
kept in a private collection.
Oscar Miestchaninoff was a sculptor
born in 1886 in Vicebsk, Belarus. After receiving basic art education there, he
studied at the School of Fine Arts in Odessa from 1905 to 1906.
He moved to Paris in 1907 and
studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and made friends with Picasso, Diego
Rivera, Soutine and Modigliani.
He was a sculptor who made busts
and torsos of marble, granite and bronze.
In 1919, he visited Burma, Siam and
Cambodia to study sculptures of the ancient cities of Angkor and Khmer. He also
went to India in 1927 to study rock-cut temples in Ellora, and then became a
recognized expert in the arts of Ancient Asia.
Modigliani, a friend of the
sculptor Oscar Miestchaninoff, the model for today's work, drew his head as the
almost perfect circle as well as a childlike outfit, giving the impression of a
caricature.
Although they are Modigliani's styles appeared in other paintings as well, the model's crooked nose, mouth, and thin eyebrows in this painting reinforce such childlike and caricature feeling. In addition, the short upper and lower bodies of the model and the thick and short neck are the elements that make the model more like a child.
This caricature style was the style Modigliani enjoyed drawing the local people
when he lived in his hometown of Livorno. This work might be reflecting his
wish he wanted to return to his childhood. It seems that his such feeling,
missing his hometown and childhood is portrayed in this work.
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