Friday, 4 March 2022

Modigliani inspired self-portraits

Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jewish painter who lived in France in the early 1900s. He is perhaps best known for his portraits that had a surreal elongation of faces and necks. The oddly graceful and haunting paintings were not very well received in their day, but in time have actually become highly acclaimed (and valuable!) masterpieces.

The way we create these portraits means that the children create a VERY stretched-out look for themselves, which can be applied to their features as well.

We shared these two videos with the children to help explain the look and also tell the children a little about Amedeo.



We are so impressed with the children's artwork and they loved every moment of creating them! 
Scroll down to view our gallery.

T1's portraits:


















T2's portraits:






















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