Velibor Čolić
Autor(a) de The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani
About the Author
Obras por Velibor Čolić
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Čolić, Velibor
- Data de nascimento
- 1964-06-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Bosnia
- País (no mapa)
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Local de nascimento
- Odžak, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Translingualism (1)
Prémios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Membros
- 78
- Popularidade
- #229,022
- Avaliação
- 2.9
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 27
- Línguas
- 7
To embarrass myself with my own art ignorance even further, it was only in the middle of reading this book that I realised I have had 2 Modigliani prints hanging on the walls of various homes for the past 15 years without knowing a jot about who had painted the originals.
Anyway, this is an odd little book, printed in smaller than normal size, and written in a poetical randomness which echoes the opium and alcohol fuelled craziness of the painter's short life. Love, drugs, prison, prostitutes, drugs, muses, murder, vagrancy - he lived a life of chaos and debauchery as all the best writers and artists have done for centuries.
3 stars - an interesting read on an artist who was previously unknown to me. But now I will forever understand the pupil-less eyes of the love of his life who stare down at me from the wall of my sun room.… (mais)