subota, 7. kolovoza 2010.

Modigliani

Portreti
portret Paul Alexandera,
portret Beatris Hastings, 1915

portret Jeanne Hebuterne,1917

portret Jeana Cocteaua, 1916

portret Djevojčica u plavom,1918

portret  Madame Kisling, 1917

autoportret,1919

portret Jeanne Hebuterne,1917

portret Leopolda Zborowskog,1919

Amadeo Modigliani 1884-1920


Amedeo Modigliani je bio boem u pravom smislu riječi. Nakon smrti uzdignut je gotovo do visina Vincenta Van Gogha. Stilski je bio blizak kubistima, ali nije pripadao njihovom pokretu. Most je između generacije Toulouse-Lotreca i Art Deco slikara 20-tih godina prošlog stoljeća.

Rođen je u Livornu  12. sprnja 1884. godine u židovskoj obitelji. Otac Flaminio je posjedovao malenu mjenjačnicu, prilično neuspješnu. Majka Eugenia je vodila eksperimentalnu školu. Upravo zbog majčinog jakog karaktera, obitelj je živjela prilično nekonvencionalno. Amadeo je bio najmlađe od četvero djece i cijelog su ga života pratili zdravstveni problemi.

1889.godine Amadeo započinje naukovanje od slikara Guglierma Michelia koji je bio učenik Giovannia Fattoria, vođe Macchiaiolia, talijanske inačice francuskom impresioizma.
Godine 1898. obolio je od tifusa, a nakon oporavka omogućeno mu je da napusti školu i pohađa satove crtanja i slikanja u umjetničkoj akademiji i Livornu.
Krajem 1900. njegovo se zdravstveno stanje pogoršalo,obolio je od turbekuloze te je zimu proveo u Napulju, na Capriju i u Rimu

1902. godine odlazi u Firencu kod Fattoria. 1903. se seli u Veneciju gdje upoznaje buduće vođe futurizma Boccionia i Sofficia. Tu se upoznaje s drogama i žestoko se opija.

1906. odlazi u Pariz uz majčinu pomoć,gdje uvježbava crtanje osoba na Academie Colarossi.
Upoznaje njemačkog umjetnika Meidnera koji opisuje Modiglianija kao posljednjeg pravog boema. Godine 1907. Modigliani pronalazi svog prvog mecenu - Paula Alexandrea. Preko njega upoznaje i Brancusija, jednog od najvećih kipara XX.st.
Ono što ga je privuklo u Pariz je lagano nestajalo. U Francuskoj u to doba buja i antisemitizam koji u njegovoj rodnoj Italiji je gotovo nepoznat. Stoga se najviše druži sa Židovima i postaje svjesniji svog židovskog porijekla. Među njima su Kisling, kipar Lipchitz i pjesnik Max Jackob koji mu je jedina veza s Picassovim krugom. Raste mu reputacija i u gostioničarskim krugovima. Ne pije, nego loče i onda se mrtav pijan skida gol na očigled sviju. I to više puta. 1909. godine, bolestan i iscrpljen takvim životom, vraća se kući u Livorno.
Nakon opravka, vraća se u Pariz i odlučuje postati kipar kod majstora Bracusia. Upoznaje se s umjetnošću Afrike i Oceanije koja ima velik utjecaj na njega. I dalje je beznadežno siromašan. Skulpture radi od ukradena kamena sa nekog gradilišta. 1912. se opet teško razbolijeva , mora kući na oporavak, ali se vraća čim je prije moguće.
Godine 1914. Modigliani prestaje praviti skulpture jer mu nije više bio dostupan kamen za klesanje. Iste godine upoznaje Beatrice Hastings, mladu englesku novinarku s kojom će se sprijateljiti i koja će mu biti model sljedeće dvije godine.Bila je 5 godina starija od njega i imala je nešto novca, tako da je Modigliani mogao prilično ugodno živjeti. No teško opijanje i tu napravilo zlo. Veza je prekinuta kad je nakon jedne svađe Modigliani bacio Beatricu kroz prozor. U to se doba zamjećuje njegov ekspresionistički stil portretiranaj. Lice i vrat su izduženi, linije  su fino savijene, često se ne vide zjenice u očima, usne su sitne.


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S profesionalne strane malo mu je bolje krenulo. Mladi Paul Guillame je pokazivao zainteresiranost za njegove portrete, ali je Amadeu bio nesimpatičan.

Godine 1916. Modigliani je upoznao poljskog pjesnika Leopolda Zborowskog i njegovu ženu Annu, s kojima se sprijateljio i u nekoliko navrata portretirao, započevši veliku seriju izrazito erotičnih aktova.

U travnju 1917. upoznaje 19-godišnju Jeanne Hébuterne, s kojom započinje zajednički život. Ona postaje jednim od njegovih glavnih modela; naslikao ju je barem 25 puta

3. prosinca 1917. g. organizirana je izložba aktova u galeriji Berthe Weill. To mu je bila jedina samostalna izložba za života. Izazvala je velik skandal i policija je naredila da se slike s izložbe uklone.

Uskoro njihovi sukobi postaju zanimljiviji stanovništvu Montmartra nego tuče sa Beatrice. Kada je bio pijan ponašao se poput luđaka, kako je izjavio jedan njegov suvremenik i očevidac njegovih divljanja.
U isto vrijeme nebrojeni potreti mlade Jeanne pokazuju zaljubljenost, brigu i opčinjenost.

1918. godine stanje u Parizu je tako teško da se njegov menadžer Zborowski odlučuje preseliti na jug Francuske. Osim Modigliania predstavljao je Soutina, Kislinga i japanskog umjetnika Foujitu. Modigliani seli u Nicu, ali na njega mediteranska klima uopće ne djeluje. I dalje slika unutara, najčešće lokalne trgovce i njihovu djecu.

U veljači 1918. Jeanne ostaje trudna i par se nakratko rastaje vjerojatno zbog njezine majke. Vjerovatno je išla Modiglianiu na živce jer je došla pomoći kćeri u trudnoći. Spojili su se kad se dijete trebalo roditi. Par je dobio kćerku, a Modigliani se na putu u matični ured tako napio da je dijete zavedenu knjige bez oca. Njegova obietelj je kasnije usvojila djevojčicu u Italiji. U svibju 1919. se vratio u Pariz, jedino mjesto koje je zaista volio, dok je Jeanni ostavio u Nici. Bila je po drugi puta trudna.

Zahvaljujući trudu Zborowskog platna mu se konačno prodaju po pristojnim cijenama. 1919. je sudjelovao na vrlo uspjeloj izložbi u Londonu. Konačno u srpnju 1919. godine Modigliani I Jeanne se mogu preseliti u normalan stan. U tom istom stanu je nekad prije živio Gauguin. Mođutim, zdravlje mu se stravično pogoršalo, a problemi s alkoholom sve veći i veći.

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The Big Blue ( 1988 )



The Big Blue (French: Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 English-language film made by French director Luc Besson. The film stars Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Jean Reno and depicts a fictionalized account of the sporting rivalry between two famed free divers.

Le Grand Bleu was released in France on May 11 1988 and in the United States August 22 1988. It was released in the United States under the name The Big Blue. Luc Besson was initially unsure of who to cast in the main role of Jacques Mayol. He initially offered the role to Christopher Lambert and Mickey Rourke and even considered himself for the role until someone suggested Jean-Marc Barr. Besson has a cameo appearance as one of the divers in the film. Le Grand Bleu was the most financially successful French film of the 1980's gaining 9,193,873 admissions in France alone and played in French theaters for a year. The film was also a modest Box Office hit in the States grossing $3,580,882.

The film charts the competition and friendship of real-life champions Jacques Mayol (played by Barr) and Enzo Maiorca (renamed in the film to "Enzo Molinari", and played by Reno). However the divers were not close in age in real life and did not compete. The action is divided into two timelines - the nascent rivalry between the two divers as children, and (as adults) their final competition at the world free-diving championships at the Sicilian town of Taormina. Mayol's search for love, family, "wholeness" and the meaning of life and death is a strong undercurrent of the latter timeline.


With its extensive underwater scenes and languid score (as with nearly all of Luc Besson's films the soundtrack was composed by Eric Serra), the film has been both praised as beautiful and serene, and in equal measure criticized as being dull and uneventful. While popular in Europe, the film was a commercial failure in North America in part due to the studio's[citation needed] recutting of the movie to include a simplified "happy" ending and the replacement of Serra's score with one composed by Bill Conti. This version was only available on VHS and Laserdisc in the United States (both with 4x3 pan and scan transfers) and is currently OOP. The director later released a longer Director's Cut on DVD, featuring the original ending and an extended version of the Éric Serra score. The film was dedicated to his daughter Juliette Besson who required surgery, having become ill whilst he was working on the film.
A Blu-ray Disc version, containing both the extended and theatrical cuts of the movie, was released on September 14th 2009 in the UK, but this contains French-dubbed versions of both cuts, rather than the original English language. This was later corrected and the second release contained a LPCM 2.0 English soundtrack and a DTS 2.0 French dub. The French Blu-Ray release contains only the Director's Cut of the film but with a French DTS-MA 5.1 soundtrack and is supplemented with Atlantis on Blu-Ray as well.
The Big Blue was nominated for several César Awards and won César Award for Best Music Written for a Film (Eric Serra) and Best Sound in 1989. The film also won France's National Academy of Cinema's Academy Award in 1989.
The film was screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival

 izvor: wikipedia

Ann Demeulemeester jesen/zima 2010

Horst P. Horst

In the history of twentieth-century fashion and portrait photography, Horst's contribution figures as one of the most artistically significant and long lasting, spanning as it did the sixty years between 1931 and 1991. During this period, his name became legendary as a one-word photographic byline, and his photographs came to be seen as synonymous with the creation of images of elegance, style and rarefied glamour.

Born on 14 August 1906, Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann was the second son of a prosperous middle class Protestant shop owner, Max Bohrmann and his wife, Klara Schoenbrodt.
The first pictures that carried a Horst credit line appeared in the December 1931 issue of French Vogue. It was a full-page advertisement showing a model in black velvet holding a Klytia scent bottle in one hand with the other hand raised elegantly above it... Horst's real breakthrough as a published fashion and portrait photographer was in the pages of British Vogue... starting with the 30 March 1932 issue showing three fashion studies and a full-page portrait of the daughter of Sir James Dunn, the art patron and supporter of Surrealism.

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War was declared between America and Germany on 7 December 1941. Horst was called up for service, though he was not officially enrolled until July 1943. The late 1930s and early 1940s were his most productive years, during which he excelled at working with 10-x-8 inch colour transparencies both for covers and for portrait and fashion sittings...


As a typical example of wartime escapism, the Rita Hayworth film Cover Girl (1944) provided Horst with the opportunity to produce one of his most sumptuous film-star covers in a montage of seven different portraits of the cover girl Susann Shaw set against a silk design. His picture of Loretta Young became an almost immediate classic when it was featured in a special edition of Vogue which included masterpieces of photography selected by (classic photographer Edward) Steichen to show off the first hundred years of the medium.


Pictures taken in Europe in the 1950s, away from studio interference from the new Vogue editor, had a startling plein-air quality. They ranged from Ian Fleming shot at Kitzbeuhel to an extended essay on the German conductor Herbert von Karajan in his modern sports car at his Austrian retreat... Horst's first important trip to Austria occurred in 1952, to work on a major advertising campaign with the new model Suzy Parker, who would become a major star in the 1960s before attempting a film career. In America that same year, he took his first lifestyle house and interior photographs; the sitter was Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlboro and now MMe. Jacques Balsan. This series, encouraged by Diana Vreeland during her time at Vogue, was to continue into the 1980s in both Vogue and House and Garden and was to be collected in the book Horst: Interiors by Barbara Plumb (1983).


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The 1960s started well for American Vogue with the appointment of the larger than life 'Empress of Fashion', Diana Vreeland, as Editor-in-Chief. Vreeland served from 1961 until 1971, when a change of approach was deemed necessary. Horst was assigned some of the leading players of the time and produced a number of archetypal images of this energetic decade.


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The 1970s remains the decade that good, timeless style overlooked, and work for Horst was necessarily sparse... However, Horst's rediscovery by a new group of 1980's style-seeking enthusiasts resulted in increasing commissions...

Horst was commissioned to take nine photographs which appeared in February 1980. This was the most popular issue of Life in that year, selling 1.5 million copies. It led to a book contract and continued work with (editor James) Watters, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of early Hollywood stars made him the ideal interviewer as the two men travelled round America to produce their best-selling book Return Engagement: Faces to Remember - Then and Now (1984).





Horst' career can be said to have reached Old Master status when the world's most famous pop goddess, Madonna, created her celebrated hymn to classic fashion photography with her single Vogue in 1990. In the video directed by David Fincher, she posed as a recreation of Horst's most iconic fashion image, a model seen from behind, wearing a partially tied, back-laced corset made by Detolle.

In his approach to portraiture, Horst set out to create a parallel aspirational universe in which his subjects became mysterious and alluring. Bruce Weber, one of many photographers influenced by Horst, artfully described his feelings about Horst's work in a 1992 television documentary: 'The elegance of his photographs ... took you to another place, very beautifully ... the untouchable quallity of the people is really interesting as it gives you something of a distance ... it's like seeing somebody from another world ... and you wonder who that person is and you really want to know that person and really want to fall inlove with that person'.




-- excerpted from Terrence Pepper's essay "Always in Vogue" from the book Horst Portraits, 60 Years of Style. National Portrait Gallery, London, 2001