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Mirjana, acrylic on board, 2019
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Abstract expressionism inspired by Modigliani. The plain back- ground offers no distractions and allows us to gaze at the model’s beauty and her serene expressions. Modigliani would not paint the model’s eyes because they were too beautiful and too intimate. Elongated, angular lines and the sculptural tranquility on the sit- ter’s face allows for the possibility of the grasp of model’s personality through the eyes. The blue color of the empty eyes for this case matches with the blue background color on the right side as if we see the background through the empty eyes. When Modigliani left the eyes empty, it is considered that he then had difficulties in under- standing the character of the mod- el. Every model has more charac- ters. For the model having an am- biguous character, he blurred the eyes, or pupils. “I will paint your eyes when I find your soul.” It seems that the model looks at the world while we look into the mod- el’s eyes to get into her thoughts.