In Search of Style
Recently, My spouse and i had to locate a house warming gift for some friends but we were totally out of ideas. At a similar occasion they had given me with a quaich, a Scottish symbol of eternal friendship, and so i was feeling We had to get something more than just a greeting card.
Our friends really are an unconventional couple you just can’t pigeonhole. They’re smart, humorous and true individuals and since they were relocating to a new house, I decided a decorative object would be suited, but what to pick? My own, personal taste runs to things from the ancient world, like {Roman art} and Greek sculpture. I put in a lot of time looking for something symbolic, a present that had a story behind it, but Aphrodite didn’t seem right, an Alexander bust was something we knew our friends already had and Hippocrates would have been ideal for a doctor, but not for an IT professional married to a lawyer. What I needed was something the same and also, like my friends, completely different.
My eventual pick was a Modigliani sculpture, an elongated female head sculpture very different from the traditional figurines I had considered but precisely the same. Established yet primitive simultaneously Modigliani sculptures is clearly influenced by African Masks and Polynesian statues, smooth and rounded whilst long and angular, it is the contradiction which helps make the sculpture so remarkable.
Modigliani’s tale is a sad one. Born in 1884, his knack for art was apparent from an early age, nonetheless his life was dominated by tuberculosis. His mother ensured he had the best quality training, and he had been very highly regarded by his art teacher, though he designed his own personal style which has more in common with the angular… Continue reading
