Word: modigliani
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Amadeo Modigliani . . . was a sensitive young draughtsman and had in him possibilities as a colorist which might have been interestingly fulfilled had he lived. But he was given to unfortunate distortions, providing the sitters for his portraits with absurdly elongated throats, slit-like eyes and swerving noses, and to make matters worse he kept repeating these malformations until his portraiture suggests the functioning of a thin stencil...
...glossy smartchart Vanity Fair. In its blithe, monthly blurbs Vanity Fair pictures its subscribers as impeccably draped ladies and gentlemen in rhomboidal furniture, who sigh with appreciation at the dissonances of Darius Milhaud and will scarcely trouble themselves to look at painting earlier than that of Amadeo Modigliani...