Took a fabulous book out of the library the other day with big reproductions of Modigliani's portraits. The book talked of all the influences on his work from Italian painting to African sculpture. It also talked about how his portraits came more from inside him than from the person sitting across from him. (I'll remember to tell that to the next person who doesn't recognize themselves in one of my portraits!) Also back from North Carolina where I stumbled on a landscape painter with a great style, Janet Green Jacobson. Kind of a cross between Hopper and Benton. (She's got a blog if you want to check out the work.) And a final congrats to one of my teachers, Margaret Scanlan, whose show of landscapes opens in Charlotte, NC, this week.
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Love your portraits, Neil. How funny that 2 former writers are now artists. Creativity just flows. Interesting comment from Modigliani about his portraits coming from inside himself. Sometimes they also look like our own faces b/c that is the face we see in the mirror every day!
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