❝ When I’ll know your soul, I’ll paint your #eyes ❞

🎥  It’s a quote from the actor Andy Garcia playing Amedeo Modigliani in the famous movie ” #Modigliani ” which traces the troubled life of the painter.

☞ Do you know…

‣ The choice not to paint the eyes, probably due to a sense of inadequacy towards such a perceived #intimate contact, is one of the elements that distinguishes his portraits together with the characterizing long and tapered #feminine necks

‣ This painting “Girl in a Sailor’s Blouse” depicts a typical subject suitable for the artist’s free interpretation. It’s in fact here that the originality of Modigliani clearly emerges: the #style so personal, very far from that of his contemporaries, which makes him today one of the greatest artists of the 20th century

⇒ Date: 1918

⇒ Material: Oil on canvas

⇒ Dimensions: 60.3 x 46.4 cm

⇒ Site: Metropolitan Museum of Art