Abstract
Artists of visual culture have been tirelessly exploring various expressions and possibilities of transforming objective objects into images and languages in their works. The extraction of realistic objects in creative activities needs to be guided by artistic concepts, and artists' various expressions are not fabricated out of thin air. They often collect materials from real life, refine objective objects, and give works a warm subjective emotion, thus building a rich graphic language to convey to viewers. In Italian painter Modigliani's paintings, his unconventional deformation language, extremely bold composition, rhythmic lines like music, and concise and generalized coloring form constitute his distinctive painting style, and through the deconstruction and reorganization of objective reality, he creates his own artistic pattern, achieving a kind of "unlike like". "This paper will look at Modigliani's art. This paper will explore the possibility of transforming objective objects into objects and language in Modigliani's works from the formal language and aesthetic expression, and explain the artistic value contained in his works.
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How to cite this paper
“The Likeness of Unlikeness”—The Reorganization of Objective Objects to Artistic Images and Language from Modigliani’s Works
How to cite this paper: Haiyi Yu. (2023) “The Likeness of Unlikeness”—The Reorganization of Objective Objects to Artistic Images and Language from Modigliani’s Works. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(4), 677-680.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.04.008