Announcement for Lecture Schedule in June 2022

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After experiencing great difficulties in offline lectures for a long time due to the COVID19 crisis, I start offline lectures again from June 2022.

First of all, I would like to inform you of my lecture schedule for June 2022, which is next month, and I will again inform you of my lecture schedule for July 2022 in next month.

In the next month, June 2022, a total of 4 lectures hosted by the Gangnam branch, Shinsegae Academy are being prepared. The title of my lecture is “The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories.”

This lecture has been popular at various institutions such as Mapo Lifelong Learning Center and Seongdong-gu Library, and you can also find the content in my books.

Please refer to following details of my lecture for next month at Gangnam Branch, Shinsegae Academy.

1. Lecture Title: The Great and Immortal Painters’ Stories

2. Lecture content

1) Introduction of the selected artist’s life and interesting stories

2) Introduction of a film featuring the selected artist

3) Select the music that matches with the selected artist's life and work as background music for slideshow of the appreciation of the artist's works

3. Venue: Gangnam Branch, Shinsegae Academy

4. Instructor Name: Seungyong Chang

5. Course Period: 2022.06.03~2022.06.24 (total 4 lectures)

6. Day/Time: Fri 10:40~12:00

7. Target audience: Adults

8. Lecture room: Classroom F (community)

9. Application period: 2022.04.26 ~ 2022.06.02

10. Details

Round          Date                     Contents

1                    2022.06.03         Amedeo Modigliani

2                    2022.06.10         Claude Monet

3                    2022.06.17          Vincent Van Gogh

4                   2022.06.24          Gustav Klimt

Thank you for your interest and I hope to see you at the lecture.

Thank you.

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My new article “Lost Works of Amedeo Modigliani in Early Paris Period. Why?” was published in Quid Magazine

Woman's Head in Profile, Amedeo Modigliani (1906-7)

 

 

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My fourth article was published in “Quid Magazine”, an Italian online art magazine I am working as a visiting columnist and writer.

The topic of this article, as before, is about Amedeo Modigliani, and the title of the article is “Lost Works of Amedeo Modigliani in Early Paris Period. Why?"

After moving to Paris, France in 1906, Modigliani was very active in his career but his remaining paintings, especially during the years of 1906-1908, are very few.

In this article, I summarized the reasons, and you can review the article from the link below.

https://www.quidmagazine.com/index.php/quid-dell-arte/1571-lost-works-of-amedeo-modigliani-in-early-paris-period-why

You can also review my three articles previously published in Quid Magazine from the links below.

Tragic Lover, Amedeo Modigliani andJeanne Hébuterne

Was Modi really maudit?

Why did Modigliani become a painterwho has many fakes?

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The Stories about Art Films: 10. Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958), ACJ Movie Academy

Basic Info

Title: Les Amants de Montparnasse

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Italy

Language: French

Running time: 108 minutes

Release date: 4 April 1958

Staff

Director: Jacques Becker

Producer: Sandro Pallavicini

Screenplay: Jacques Becker, Henri Jeanson

Music: Paul Misraki

Cinematography: Christian Matras

Editor: Marguerite Renoir

Cast

Gérard Philipe as Amedeo Modigliani

Lilli Palmer as Beatrice Hastings

Anouk Aimée as Jeanne Hébuterne

Lea Padovani as Rosalie

Lino Ventura as Morel

Gérard Séty as Léopold Zborowski

Lila Kedrova as Anna Zborowska

Marianne Oswald as Berthe Weill

Summary

“Les Amants de Montparnasse” is a 1958 French-Italian drama film partially based on the last years of the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, who died while working in poverty in Montparnasse, Paris. Some of the most famous paintings by Modigliani at the time were the paintings of Beatrice Hastings and Jeanne Hébuterne, his last two lovers appeared in the movie.

Plot

The artist, Modigliani, known as Modi, who is a leading figure of the bohemians in Paris, paints while drinking and living with the charming writer Beatrice, but rarely sells his paintings. He meets a young and beautiful art student named Jeanne. However, Jeanne is locked up by her family, who prevents her from meeting Modigliani. His friends, the Zborowskis, do their best to make Modigliani famous, and send him to Nice to recover his health, which was weakened by constant alcohol and tobacco. Meanwhile, Jeanne, who has been locked up, flees and goes to Modigliani in Nice, after which the two become inseparable.

The Zborowskis, who returned to Paris, organize Modigliani's solo exhibition at the famous gallery of Madame Weill’s, where those who came to the opening have free drinks but nobody buys his paintings. Also, the police, who were dissatisfied with the exhibition, order the removal of a nude on the window. A cynical dealer Morel says that Modi will soon die, and people then will buy his paintings. The Zborowskis meet an American millionaire who is interested in Modi's paintings, but he says he will use Jeanne's blue eyes for advertising his products, and Modigliani is disgusted at his saying.

Discouraged by the inability to combine the beauty contained in his paintings of Beatrice and Jeanne with commercial reality, Modigliani tries to sell his paintings going round cafés, but ends in vain. Collapsing in the street, Modigliani is taken to a hospital, where he dies alone. Without telling what happened, the dealer Morel rushes to Jeanne and immediately buys all the unsold paintings of Modigliani for cash.

Movie Review

“A genius called Modi who died poor, sad and neglected!!!”

“Good film, tragic end”

Interesting stories about the film

1. Originally, Max Ophüls was the director of the film, but he died soon afterwards and was replaced by Jacques Becker.

2. Italian actress Lea Padovani was dubbed by the voices of French actress Nadine Alari in some scenes, and her own voice with strong Italian accents can be heard in others.

3. German actress Lilli Palmer's voice was not dubbed in the film, which was very rare in French films at the time.

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