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Modigliani Institute Korea (MIK) is
currently introducing artworks of Amedeo Modigliani one by one every week.
The 77th work to introduce for this
week is “Minoutcha” in 1917.
This work is an expressionist style
portrait and an oil painting on a canvas with the size of 55.3 x 33 cm, and
held in private collection.
This work depicts a woman in a
chubby style rather than an elongated style, one of Modigliani's distinctive
painting styles.
It also adds faint lines to the
woman's chin and neck to further emphasize her chubby face. The woman's
appearance generally looks round and voluptuous, but her nose shows sculptural
traces that Modigliani still had regrets even after stopping his activities.
Based on the viewer's position,
comparing to the many other works of Modigliani, having poses that are slightly
tilted to the left, the woman in this work has almost a straight pose without
inclination.
“MINOUTCHA”, which might
be seen as the model’s name in the upper left, and the left background are
tilted downward, while the right background has no inclination. Then, the last
two letters "HA" of the model's name "MINOUTCHA" are written
in bold as if they were misspelled and the correct letters were written on them
again.
This work used several colors, but
since most of them are dark tones, it feels like monotone and gloomy.
Modigliani treated the woman's neck
not very long to support the chubby woman's appearance in this work.
The right background was treated
much darker, but instead, it leaves a lot of white spaces including the woman's
right hair and such sparse brushworks relieve the darker treatment on the right
side compared to the left side and it also seems like an unfinished work.
The woman's eyes show the colors of
the background itself as if the background is visible through her eyes, and as
a result, the colors of the two eyes are different, which is different from the
general style of Modigliani, expressing both eyes without pupils as same color.
The woman's eyes do not have pupils, but they are making gloomy and sad
feeling, and her blushing face further emphasizes such gloomy feeling.
In addition, the black clothes and
white collar worn by the model give a contrast effect each other as well as
giving her freshness and stability.
In addition to this work, the
examples of other works by Modigliani that he painted models in a chubby style
rather than an elongated style are as follows.
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| Burgundian Woman (1918) |
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| Madame Amédée (Woman with Cigarette) (1918) |
Thank you.
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