{"id":8583,"date":"2026-04-30T14:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:05:39","slug":"%e3%80%8clook-at-the-picture-and-talk-about-the-painting%e3%80%8dmodigliani-the-gaze-belonging-solely-to-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/?p=8583","title":{"rendered":"\u300cLook at the Picture and Talk about the Painting\u300dModigliani: The Gaze Belonging Solely to the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV1Gp9KBgEXx?t=0.7&#8243;]<div class=\"vcex-spacing\" style=\"height:30px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]\n<p>This year at Art Basel Hong Kong, &#8220;Jeune femme brune&#8221; was sold for 13 million US dollars. Amedeo Modigliani, the Italian genius painter who died at the age of 36, still stirs the art market&#8217;s nerves a century after his death with his portraits featuring &#8220;eyes without pupils&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Only when I understand your soul can I paint your eyes. That&#8217;s why the characters in his paintings have the distinctive hollow eye sockets, which are expressions of stripping away worldly distractions, the spiritual abyss of inward contemplation, reflecting the loneliness and tenderness in the characters&#8217; hearts, and also carrying his commitment to the belief that &#8220;art is the soul&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>What I want is a short but complete life. Modigliani was trapped in poverty and illness throughout his life, yet he transformed all his despair into the serenity of creation. He drew on the lines of Italian Mannerism and African wood carvings to reshape the human form, stripping away the mundane carnal desires and endowing his paintings with an eternal divinity. Those elongated necks that stretch upwards are not merely formal aesthetics; they are the spiritual breakaway of the human body growing towards the light amid suffering, turning the figures in his paintings into pure spiritual vessels. <\/p>\n<p>These brushstrokes conceal his ultimate contemplation on life, love and art. We honor Modigliani not for his market value, but for his determination to pursue a complete soul in the darkness. This is the most touching power of art. <\/p>\n<p>The tea for today is all gone. Next time, I&#8217;ll brew a fresh pot and enjoy art with you again.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#038;#8221&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mr-shan","post_format-post-format-video","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8583\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}