Velibor Čolić
Auteur van The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani
Over de Auteur
Werken van Velibor Čolić
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Čolić, Velibor
- Geboortedatum
- 1964-06-13
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Bosnia
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Geboorteplaats
- Odžak, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Translingualism (1)
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 16
- Leden
- 82
- Populariteit
- #220,761
- Waardering
- 3.2
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 27
- Talen
- 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.… (meer)