Pupils of
Project
MY INTERNATIONAL FRIEND Pupils of CLASSE 3D
Bruno, Jacquelyne, Giulia B., Lorenzo B., Francesco, Lisa C., Alessia C., Federico, Alessia G., Lisa G., Lorenzo L., Mathilde, Aurora, Lorenzo N. , Francesca, Chiara, Filippo, Giulia P., Alessandra, Emanuele, Ibraihim, Vitalina.
TEACHERS INVOLVED
Teresa De Vito English Language teacher
Lorenza Biasci Art teacher
I Macchiaioli A group of young painters from Tuscany between 1850 and 1860 gave rise to an innovative art movement. These young people met in Florence, at Caffè Michelangelo which became for them, a place of meeting, to exchange artistic and political ideas. Their painting was drawn from life: in the open air, and was characterized by the technique of color "spots" which gave its name to the artistic movement . In their paintings they represented everyday scenes portrayed from life with a simplification of the figures and marked shadows and lights that were obtained by means of contrasting light and dark spots . The most important personalities of the group were: Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini, Raffaele Sernesi, Vincenzo Cabianca, Odoardo Borrani, Cristiano Banti, Giuseppe Abbati, and Federico Zandomeneghi. These artists usually used to meet and, on those occasions, sometimes portrayed each other as a sign of their strong friendship that united them.
The places of the “Macchiaioli�
Pisa Livorno Castiglioncello
Firenze
The Macchiaioli movement was born in Florence and spread in different places in Tuscany : the Florentine hills, those of Pisa and on the Tyrrhenian coast from Livorno to Castiglioncello as far as the coast of Lazio.
After the Macchiaioli the macchiaioli movement‌
Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani, also called with his nickname of ModĂŹ, was born in Livorno on July 12th , 1884. Since he was a very young boy he showed a strong passion for drawing, filling pages and pages with sketches and portraits. He frequented the study of Guglielmo Micheli, one of the best students of Giovanni Fattori, where he learned the basics of painting and met the great master in 1898. Modigliani was also influenced by the movement of Macchiaioli, especially by Giovanni Fattori himself and Silvestro Lega. After his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Venice, in 1906 he moved to Paris where he soon devoted himself to painting. He developed a unique style which was contemporary to the art movement of the Cubists, but he never joined them. Modigliani was famous for being fast , he was able to complete a portrait in one or two sessions.
Among the people he portrayed we remember the painter and friend Chaim Soutine and Beatrice Hastings, a British writer and journalist who he was in love with for two years, and many fellow artists who attended Montparnasse at that time, such as Pablo Picasso, Max Jacobs, Diego Rivera, Jean Gris and young writers.
Amedeo also liked to portray his girlfriend, Jeanne Hebuterne , who jumped out of the window the day after the death of Modi ,on January 24th, 1920 at dawn.
The conception of his painting based on linear drawing, and his romantic and troubled life of misery and illness made Amedeo Modigliani an outstanding personality in the context of modern art. Today Modigliani is universally known as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and his works are shown in the greatest museums all over the world.