Mary Jane 2040
Woman With Red Hair In Chair
I’d like to thank an ancient Italian law that prevented creditors from seizing the bed of a mother with a newborn child. Because of that law, in 1884 the family of newborn Amedeo Clemente Modigliani were able to stave off total bankruptcy by piling their most valuable assets on the bed in which Amadeo and his mother were laying. Those assets later enabled Amadeo’s mother to enroll him as a young child in a local art school. That art training gave him the confidence to travel to Paris as a young man. Paris gave Modigliani the opportunity to transform himself from an academic artist into a sort of model for Bohemian life. His Bohemian life freed him from the constraints of polite society. Release from those constraints ruined Modigliani financially and physically, but stimulated his creativity. His creativity manifested itself in a style of portraiture that defies description and resists categorization. And that style of portraiture made this photograph possible.
I’d also like to thank Rachel, both for producing this remarkable young woman and this equally remarkable photograph.
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