"Tête", 1911-12
"Tête", 1911-12
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cast | hand-painted | height 15.5 cm
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"Tête", 1911-12
He was the "Bohemian" par excellence. Modigliani knew no size and no limits and cared little for conventional doctrines. That is how he found his own and unmistakable style, which still seems modern today as it did 90 years ago...
Figure made of hand-painted, porcelain-like resin cast. Height 15.5 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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About Amedeo Modigliani
1884-1920
The Italian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, who died at an early age, placed two motifs at the centre of his work: the portrait and the nude. With his unmistakably elongated and stylised visual language, he created a melancholic-lyrical mood. The soft, flowing, seemingly never-ending body shapes of the female nudes are given their volume by a delicate powdery colouring.
From 1909, Modigliani began to study African sculptures, whose visual language had an influence on his style and sculptures. Nevertheless, his works can never quite be assigned to the avant-garde art movements at the beginning of the 20th century. Fauvism and Cubism were nothing more than just formal and technical stimuli for Modigliani. Together with Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, Modigliani formed part of the triad of Jewish artists in Paris who clearly separated themselves from these new styles. In their works, they articulated the world of sensation, turning the sitters into bearers of feeling and thus understanding the psychological moment as the most important pictorial statement.
In his portraits, Modigliani wanted to make the character of the sitter vivid. Therefore, he painted numerous portraits of his friends, poets and artists from the circle of Parisian intellectuals. Through the warm ochre and yellow tones and the fresco-like application of the colours, the heritage of Florentine-Sienese painting lives on in his works. In the depicted faces as well as in the figures, the painter combines grace with melancholy.
The portraits and nudes, to which landscapes were added only in the last two years of his life, bear witness to the artist's great sensitivity. The tragedy of his life was his ailing health aggravated by alcohol and drug addiction, to which he succumbed at the age of 35.
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Stone Casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that instead of marble powder, the stone to be replicated is used in powder form.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Through special polishing and patination techniques, the surface of the cast takes on an appearance similar to that of bronze.
Imitation Wood
In order to guarantee absolute fidelity to the original, an artificially manufactured imitation wood is used as a base material that features typical wood characteristics: density, workability, colour, and surface structure.
Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.
Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax-Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
A true-to-the-original reproduction of an artwork in the same size and with the best possible material and colour uniformity.
The mould is usually taken directly from the original so that the replication reproduces even the finest details. After casting the replication, using the most appropriate method, the surface is polished, patinated, gilded or painted according to the original.
A replication of ars mundi is a recognizable copy of the original.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.