Modigliani by Victoria Charles

Author:Victoria Charles [International, Parkstone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781606001
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

This discourages the observer from making moral judgments about the status or lifestyle of the figures and so promotes a purely aesthetic approach. Such disregard for the old systems was threatening to those who feared female sexuality and bohemian liberality.

Manet’s Olympia caused outrage because it celebrated a confident and unashamed prostitute; most of Modigliani’s nudes are not coy and demure like Giorgione’s Venus or Titian’s nudes. Their attitude, along with the reduction of narrative and subject matter to nothing but the erotic body, presented for its own sake, were considered scandalous. It is ironic that these works by Modigliani, who deeply respected and wanted to belong to classical tradition, were seen not as High Art but as outrageous depictions of naked women.

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