HIGHLIGHTS: PORTRAITS

Modigliani is best known as a portraitist. He took this traditional medium and modernized it. photography had freed artists of the need to be realistic or naturalistic, thereby allowing them to take artistic liberties. In Modigliani's case, he often elongated of his sitters, creating an elegant and surrealistic image. His portraits are very soulful. As Jean Cocteau once wrote, Modigliani turned his sitters into Modiglianis.

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