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Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani | |
Birth name | Amedeo Clemente Modigliani |
Born | Livorno, Italy |
12 July 1884
Died | 24 January 1920 Paris, France |
(aged 35)
Nationality | Italian |
Field | Painting, Sculpture |
Training | Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence |
Works | Nude Sitting on a Divan Madame Pompadour Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl |
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈdɛo modiʎˈʎani]; July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures. He died at age 35 in Paris of tubercular meningitis.
Family and early life[edit]
Modigliani was born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy. A port city, Livorno had long served as a refuge for those persecuted for their religion, and was home to a large Jewish community. His maternal great-great-grandfather, Solomon Garsin, had immigrated to Livorno in the 18th century as a refugee.[1]
Modigliani's mother (Eugénie Garsin), who was born and grew up in Marseille, was descended from an intellectual, scholarly family of Sephardic Jews, generations of whom had resided along the Mediterranean coastline. Her ancestors were learned people, fluent in many languages, known authorities on sacred Jewish texts, and founders of a school of Talmudic studies. Family legend traced the Garsins' lineage to the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The family business was believed to be a credit agency with branches in Livorno, Marseille, Tunis, and London. Their financial fortunes ebbed and flowed.[2]
Modigliani's father, Flaminio, hailed from a family of successful businessmen and entrepreneurs. While not as culturally sophisticated as the Garsins, they knew how to invest in and develop thriving business endeavors. When the Garsin and Modigliani families announced the engagement of their children, Flaminio was a wealthy young mining engineer. He managed the mine in Sardinia and also managed the almost 30,000 acres of timberland the family owned.[3] A reversal in fortune occurred to this prosperous family in 1883. An economic downturn in the price of metal plunged the Modiglianis into bankruptcy. Ever resourceful, Modigliani's mother used her social contacts to establish a school and, along with her two sisters, made the school into a successful enterprise.[4]
Modigliani was the fourth child, whose birth coincided with the disastrous financial collapse of his father's business interests. Amedeo's birth saved the family from ruin; according to an ancient law, creditors could not seize the bed of a pregnant woman or a mother with a newborn child. The bailiffs entered the family's home just as Eugenia went into labour; the family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of her.
Modigliani had a close relationship with his mother, who taught him at home until he was 10. Beset with health problems after an attack of pleurisy when he was about 11, a few years later he developed a case of typhoid fever. When he was 16 he was taken ill again and contracted the tuberculosis which would later claim his life. After Modigliani recovered from the second bout of pleurisy, his mother took him on a tour of southern Italy: Naples, Capri, Rome and Amalfi, then north to Florence and Venice.[5][6][7]
His mother was, in many ways, instrumental in his ability to pursue art as a vocation. When he was 11 years of age, she had noted in her diary:
" | The child's character is still so unformed that I cannot say what I think of it. He behaves like a spoiled child, but he does not lack intelligence. We shall have to wait and see what is inside this chrysalis. Perhaps an artist?[8] | " |
Art student years[edit]
Modigliani is known to have drawn and painted from a very early age, and thought himself "already a painter", his mother wrote,[9] even before beginning formal studies. Despite her misgivings that launching him on a course of studying art would impinge upon his other studies, his mother indulged the young Modigliani's passion for the subject.
At the age of fourteen, while sick with typhoid fever, he raved in his delirium that he wanted, above all else, to see the paintings in the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi in Florence. As Livorno's local museum housed only a sparse few paintings by the Italian Renaissance masters, the tales he had heard about the great works held in Florence intrigued him, and it was a source of considerable despair to him, in his sickened state, that he might never get the chance to view them in person. His mother promised that she would take him to Florence herself, the moment he was recovered. Not only did she fulfil this promise, but she also undertook to enroll him with the best painting master in Livorno, Guglielmo Micheli.
Micheli and the Macchiaioli[edit]
Modigliani worked in Micheli's Art School from 1898 to 1900. Among his colleagues in that studio would have been Llewelyn Lloyd (painter), Giulio Cesare Vinzio, Manlio Martinelli, Gino Romiti, Renato Natali, and Oscar Ghiglia. Here his earliest formal artistic instruction took place in an atmosphere steeped in a study of the styles and themes of 19th-century Italian art. In his earliest Parisian work, traces of this influence, and that of his studies of Renaissance art, can still be seen. His nascent work was shaped as much by such artists as Giovanni Boldini as by Toulouse-Lautrec.
Modigliani showed great promise while with Micheli, and ceased his studies only when he was forced to, by the onset of tuberculosis.
In 1901, whilst in Rome, Modigliani admired the work of Domenico Morelli, a painter of dramatic religious and literary scenes. Morelli had served as an inspiration for a group of iconoclasts who were known by the title "the Macchiaioli" (from macchia —"dash of colour", or, more derogatively, "stain"), and Modigliani had already been exposed to the influences of the Macchiaioli. This localized landscape movement reacted against the bourgeois stylings of the academic genre painters. While sympathetically connected to (and actually pre-dating) the French Impressionists, the Macchiaioli did not make the same impact upon international art culture as did the contemporaries and followers of Monet, and are today largely forgotten outside of Italy.
Modigliani's connection with the movement was through Guglielmo Micheli, his first art teacher. Micheli was not only a Macchiaiolo himself, but had been a pupil of the famous Giovanni Fattori, a founder of the movement. Micheli's work, however, was so fashionable and the genre so commonplace that the young Modigliani reacted against it, preferring to ignore the obsession with landscape that, as with French Impressionism, characterized the movement. Micheli also tried to encourage his pupils to paint en plein air, but Modigliani never really got a taste for this style of working, sketching in cafés, but preferring to paint indoors, and especially in his own studio. Even when compelled to paint landscapes (three are known to exist),[10] Modigliani chose a proto-Cubist palette more akin to Cézanne than to the Macchiaioli.
While with Micheli, Modigliani studied not only landscape, but also portraiture, still life, and the nude. His fellow students recall that the last was where he displayed his greatest talent, and apparently this was not an entirely academic pursuit for the teenager: when not painting nudes, he was occupied with seducing the household maid.[9]
Despite his rejection of the Macchiaioli approach, Modigliani nonetheless found favour with his teacher, who referred to him as "Superman", a pet name reflecting the fact that Modigliani was not only quite adept at his art, but also that he regularly quoted from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Fattori himself would often visit the studio, and approved of the young artist's innovations.[11]
In 1902, Modigliani continued what was to be a lifelong infatuation with life drawing, enrolling in the Scuola Libera di Nudo, or "Free School of Nude Studies", of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. A year later, while still suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Venice, where he registered to study at the Regia Accademia ed Istituto di Belle Arti.
It is in Venice that he first smoked hashish and, rather than studying, began to spend time frequenting disreputable parts of the city. The impact of these lifestyle choices upon his developing artistic style is open to conjecture, although these choices do seem to be more than simple teenage rebellion, or the cliched hedonism and bohemianism that was almost expected of artists of the time; his pursuit of the seedier side of life appears to have roots in his appreciation of radical philosophies, including those of Nietzsche.
Early literary influences[edit]
Having been exposed to erudite philosophical literature as a young boy under the tutelage of Isaco Garsin, his maternal grandfather, he continued to read and be influenced through his art studies by the writings of Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Carducci, Comte de Lautréamont, and others, and developed the belief that the only route to true creativity was through defiance and disorder.
Letters that he wrote from his 'sabbatical' in Capri in 1901 clearly indicate that he is being more and more influenced by the thinking of Nietzsche. In these letters, he advised friend Oscar Ghiglia;
" | (hold sacred all) which can exalt and excite your intelligence... (and) ... seek to provoke ... and to perpetuate ... these fertile stimuli, because they can push the intelligence to its maximum creative power.[12] | " |
The work of Lautréamont was equally influential at this time. This doomed poet's Les Chants de Maldoror became the seminal work for the Parisian Surrealists of Modigliani's generation, and the book became Modigliani's favourite to the extent that he learnt it by heart.[11] The poetry of Lautréamont is characterized by the juxtaposition of fantastical elements, and by sadistic imagery; the fact that Modigliani was so taken by this text in his early teens gives a good indication of his developing tastes. Baudelaire and D'Annunzio similarly appealed to the young artist, with their interest in corrupted beauty, and the expression of that insight through Symbolist imagery.
Modigliani wrote to Ghiglia extensively from Capri, where his mother had taken him to assist in his recovery from tuberculosis. These letters are a sounding board for the developing ideas brewing in Modigliani's mind. Ghiglia was seven years Modigliani's senior, and it is likely that it was he who showed the young man the limits of his horizons in Livorno. Like all precocious teenagers, Modigliani preferred the company of older companions, and Ghiglia's role in his adolescence was to be a sympathetic ear as he worked himself out, principally in the convoluted letters that he regularly sent, and which survive today.[13]
" | Dear friend
I write to pour myself out to you and to affirm myself to myself. I am the prey of great powers that surge forth and then disintegrate... A bourgeois told me today–insulted me–that I or at least my brain was lazy. It did me good. I should like such a warning every morning upon awakening: but they cannot understand us nor can they understand life...[14] |
" |
In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. In fact, his arrival at the centre of artistic experimentation coincided with the arrival of two other foreigners who were also to leave their marks upon the art world: Gino Severini and Juan Gris.
He later befriended Jacob Epstein, they aimed to set up a studio together with a shared vision to create a Temple of Beauty to be enjoyed by all, for which Modigliani created drawings and paintings of the intended stone caryatids for 'The Pillars of Tenderness 'which would support the imagined temple.[15]
Modigliani settled in Le Bateau-Lavoir,[16] a commune for penniless artists in Montmartre, renting himself a studio in Rue Caulaincourt. Even though this artists' quarter of Montmartre was characterized by generalized poverty, Modigliani himself presented—initially, at least—as one would expect the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation, and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions. He soon made efforts to assume the guise of the bohemian artist, but, even in his brown corduroys, scarlet scarf and large black hat, he continued to appear as if he were slumming it, having fallen upon harder times.[12]
When he first arrived in Paris, he wrote home regularly to his mother, he sketched his nudes at the Académie Colarossi, and he drank wine in moderation. He was at that time considered by those who knew him as a bit reserved, verging on the asocial.[12] He is noted to have commented, upon meeting Picasso who, at the time, was wearing his trademark workmen's clothes, that even though the man was a genius, that did not excuse his uncouth appearance.[12]
Within a year of arriving in Paris, however, his demeanour and reputation had changed dramatically. He transformed himself from a dapper academician artist into a sort of prince of vagabonds.
The poet and journalist Louis Latourette, upon visiting the artist's previously well-appointed studio after his transformation, discovered the place in upheaval, the Renaissance reproductions discarded from the walls, the plush drapes in disarray. Modigliani was already an alcoholic and a drug addict by this time, and his studio reflected this. Modigliani's behaviour at this time sheds some light upon his developing style as an artist, in that the studio had become almost a sacrificial effigy for all that he resented about the academic art that had marked his life and his training up to that point.
Not only did he remove all the trappings of his bourgeois heritage from his studio, but he also set about destroying practically all of his own early work. He explained this extraordinary course of actions to his astonished neighbours thus:
" | Childish baubles, done when I was a dirty bourgeois.[17] | " |
The motivation for this violent rejection of his earlier self is the subject of considerable speculation. From the time of his arrival in Paris, Modigliani consciously crafted a charade persona for himself and cultivated his reputation of hopeless drunk and voracious drug user. His escalating intake of drugs and alcohol may have been a means by which Modigliani masked his tuberculosis from his acquaintances, few of whom knew of his condition.[18] Tuberculosis—the leading cause of death in France by 1900[19]—was highly communicable, there was no cure, and those who had it were feared, ostracized, and pitied. Modigliani thrived on camaraderie and would not let himself be isolated as an invalid; he sought to suppress his coughing bouts and any other recognizable signs of the disease that was slowly consuming him. Modigliani used drink and drugs as palliatives to ease his physical pain, helping him to maintain a facade of vitality and allowing him to continue to create his art.[20]
Modigliani's use of drink and drugs intensified from about 1914 onward. After years of remission and recurrence, this was the period during which the symptoms of his tuberculosis worsened, signaling that the disease had reached an advanced stage.[21]
He sought the company of artists such as Utrillo and Soutine, seeking acceptance and validation for his work from his colleagues.[17] Modigliani's behavior stood out even in these Bohemian surroundings: he carried on frequent affairs, drank heavily, and used absinthe and hashish. While drunk, he would sometimes strip himself naked at social gatherings.[22] He became the epitome of the tragic artist, creating a posthumous legend almost as well known as that of Vincent van Gogh.
During the 1920s, in the wake of Modigliani's career and spurred on by comments by André Salmon crediting hashish and absinthe with the genesis of Modigliani's style, many hopefuls tried to emulate his "success" by embarking on a path of substance abuse and bohemian excess. Salmon claimed—erroneously—that whereas Modigliani was a totally pedestrian artist when sober,
" | ...from the day that he abandoned himself to certain forms of debauchery, an unexpected light came upon him, transforming his art. From that day on, he became one who must be counted among the masters of living art.[23] | " |
In fact, art historians suggest[23] that it is entirely possible that Modigliani would have achieved even greater artistic heights had he not been immured in, and destroyed by, his own self-indulgences.
During his early years in Paris, Modigliani worked at a furious pace. He was constantly sketching, making as many as a hundred drawings a day. However, many of his works were lost—destroyed by him as inferior, left behind in his frequent changes of address, or given to girlfriends who did not keep them.[22]
He was first influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, but around 1907 he became fascinated with the work of Paul Cézanne. Eventually he developed his own unique style, one that cannot be adequately categorized with those of other artists.
He met the first serious love of his life, Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, in 1910, when he was 26. They had studios in the same building, and although 21-year-old Anna was recently married, they began an affair.[citation needed] Anna was tall (as Modigliani was only 5 foot 5 inches) with dark hair (like Modigliani's), pale skin and grey-green eyes, she embodied Modigliani's aesthetic ideal and the pair became engrossed in each other. After a year, however, Anna returned to her husband.
Gallery of works[edit]
Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota, 1915
Portrait of Moise Kisling, 1915
Nude Sitting on a Divan ("La Belle Romaine"), 1917
Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne, 1918
Seated Nude, 1918, Honolulu Museum of Art
Dedie Hayden, 1918, Centre Georges Pompidou
Self-portrait, 1919, oil on canvas, Museum of Contemporary Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Gypsy Woman with Baby, 1919, National Gallery of Art
The little peasant, 1918, Tate Modern, London
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1918, New Orleans Museum of Art
Montparnasse, Paris[edit]
In 1909, Modigliani returned home to Livorno, sickly and tired from his wild lifestyle. Soon he was back in Paris, this time renting a studio in Montparnasse. He originally saw himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, and was encouraged to continue after Paul Guillaume, an ambitious young art dealer, took an interest in his work and introduced him to sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. He was Constantin Brâncuși's disciple for one year.
Although a series of Modigliani's sculptures were exhibited in the Salon d'Automne of 1912, by 1914 he abandoned sculpting and focused solely on his painting, a move precipitated by the difficulty in acquiring sculptural materials due to the outbreak of war, and by Modigliani's physical debilitation.[24]
In June 2010 Modigliani's Tête, a limestone carving of a woman's head, became the second most expensive sculpture ever sold.
Friends and influences[edit]
Modigliani painted a series of portraits of contemporary artists and friends in Montparnasse: Chaim Soutine, Moïse Kisling, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marie "Marevna" Vorobyev-Stebeslka, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, and Jean Cocteau, all sat for stylized renditions.
The war years[edit]
At the outset of World War I, Modigliani tried to enlist in the army but was refused because of his poor health.[citation needed]
Known as Modì, which translates as 'cursed' (maudit), by many Parisians, but as Dedo to his family and friends, Modigliani was a handsome man, and attracted much female attention. Women came and went until Beatrice Hastings entered his life. She stayed with him for almost two years, was the subject for several of his portraits, including Madame Pompadour, and the object of much of his drunken wrath.[citation needed] When the British painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse in 1914, on her first evening there the smiling man at the next table in the café introduced himself as "Modigliani; painter and Jew". They became great friends.
In 1916, Modigliani befriended the Polish poet and art dealer Léopold Zborowski and his wife Anna. Zborowski became Modigliani's primary art dealer and friend during the artist's final years, helping him financially, and also organizing his show in Paris in 1917.
Patronage of Léopold Zborowski[edit]
The 1917 Paris Show[edit]
The several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 constitute many of his best-known works. This series of nudes was commissioned by Modigliani's dealer and friend Leopold Zborowski, who lent the artist use of his apartment, supplied models and painting materials, and paid him between fifteen and twenty francs each day for his work.[25]
The paintings from this arrangement were thus different from his previous depictions of friends and lovers in that they were funded by Zborowski either for his own collection, as a favor to his friend, or with an eye to their "commercial potential", rather than originating from the artist's personal circle of acquaintances.[26]
The Paris show of 1917 was Modigliani's only solo exhibition during his life, and is "notorious" in modern art history for its sensational public reception and the attendant issues of obscenity.[27] The show was closed by police on its opening day, but continued thereafter, most likely after the removal of paintings from the gallery's streetfront window.[27]
Nude Sitting on a Divan is one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year. According to the catalogue description from the 2010 sale of the painting at Sotheby's, seven nudes were exhibited in the 1917 show.
On a trip to Nice which had been conceived and organized by Léopold Zborowski, Modigliani, Foujita and other artists tried to sell their works to rich tourists. Modigliani managed to sell a few pictures, but only for a few francs each. Despite this, during this time he produced most of the paintings that later became his most popular and valued works.[citation needed]
During his lifetime, he sold a number of his works, but never for any great amount of money. What funds he did receive soon vanished for his habits.[citation needed]
Jeanne Hébuterne[edit]
In the spring of 1917, the Russian sculptor Chana Orloff introduced him to a beautiful 19-year-old art student named Jeanne Hébuterne[28] who had posed for Tsuguharu Foujita. From a conservative bourgeois background, Hébuterne was renounced by her devout Roman Catholic family for her liaison with the painter, whom they saw as little more than a debauched derelict. Despite her family's objections, soon they were living together, and although Hébuterne was the current love of his life, their public scenes became more renowned than Modigliani's individual drunken exhibitions.[citation needed]
On December 3, 1917, Modigliani's first one-man exhibition opened at the Berthe Weill Gallery. The chief of the Paris police was scandalized by Modigliani's nudes and forced him to close the exhibition within a few hours after its opening.
After he and Hébuterne moved to Nice, she became pregnant, and on November 29, 1918, gave birth to a daughter whom they named Jeanne (1918–1984).
In May 1919 he returned to Paris, where, with Hébuterne and their daughter, he rented an apartment in the rue de la Grande Chaumière. While there, Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani painted portraits of each other, and of themselves.[citation needed]
When Modigliani died on January 24, 1920, Hébuterne was pregnant with their second child.
Although he continued to paint, Modigliani's health was deteriorating rapidly, and his alcohol-induced blackouts became more frequent.
In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days, his downstairs neighbour checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne, who was nearly nine months pregnant. They summoned a doctor, but little could be done because Modigliani was in the final stage of his disease, dying of tubercular meningitis.
Modigliani died on January 24, 1920. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.
Hébuterne was taken to her parents' home, where, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, a day after Modigliani's death, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani. A single tombstone honors them both. His epitaph reads: "Struck down by Death at the moment of glory." Hers reads: "Devoted companion to the extreme sacrifice." [29]
Modigliani, managing only one solo exhibition in his life and giving his work away in exchange for meals in restaurants, died penniless and destitute.
The linear form of African sculpture and the depictive humanism of the figurative Renaissance painters informed his work. Working during that fertile period of "isms," Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Modigliani did not choose to be categorized within any of these prevailing, defining confines. He was unclassifiable, stubbornly insisting on his difference. He was an artist putting down paint on canvas creating works not to shock and outrage, but to say, "This is what I see." More appreciated over the years by collectors than academicians and critics, Modigliani was indifferent to staking a claim for himself in the intellectual avant-garde of the art world. One can say he recognized the merit of Jean Cocteau's proclamation: "Ne t'attendes pas avec l'avante garde," ("Don't pay attention to the avante garde").[30]
Since his death, Modigliani's reputation has soared. Nine novels, a play, a documentary, and three feature films have been devoted to his life. Modigliani's sister in Florence adopted their daughter, Jeanne (1918–1984). As an adult, she wrote a biography of her father titled, Modigliani: Man and Myth.
Art market[edit]
The Modigliani estate is one of the most problematic in the art world. There are at least five catalogues raisonnés of the artist's work including a volume by Ambrogio Ceroni, last updated in 1972. Arthur Pfannstiel (1929 and 1956) and Joseph Lanthemann's (1970) books are widely dismissed today. Milanese scholar Osvaldo Patani produced three volumes: paintings (1991), drawings (1992) and one on the Paul Alexandre period (1994), while Christian Parisot has published Volumes I, II and IV (in 1970, 1971 and 1996) of a catalogue raisonné.[31] In 2006, about 6,000 documents from the estate—believed to be the only ones existing—were moved permanently from France to Italy. Parisot, as president of the Modigliani Institut Archives Legales in Rome, had the legal right to authenticate Modigliani's work.[32] In 2013, Parisot was arrested by the Italian art forgery unit after a two-year investigation; the police seized works attributed to the artist, along with suspect authenticity certificates.[33]
In November 2010, a painting of a nude by Amedeo Modigliani, part of a series of nudes he created around 1917, sold for more than $68.9m (£42.7m) at an auction in New York—a record for the artist's work. Bidding for La Belle Romaine pushed its price well past its $40m (£24.8m) estimate. Modigliani's previous auction record was 43.2m euros (£35.8m), set earlier in 2010 in Paris. Another painting by the artist—Jeanne Hébuterne (au chapeau), one of the first portraits he painted of his lover—sold for $19.1m (£11.8m), much higher than its pre-sale estimate of $9–12m (£5.6–7.4m).[34]
Two films have been made about Modigliani: Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958), directed by Jacques Becker and starring Gérard Philipe as Modigliani; and Modigliani (2004), directed by Mick Davis and starring Andy García as Modigliani.
Critical reactions[edit]
Peter Schjeldahl wrote:
- I recall my thrilled first exposure, as a teenager, to one of his long-necked women, with their piquantly tipped heads and mask-like faces. The rakish stylization and the succulent color were easy to enjoy, and the payoff was sanguinely erotic in a way that endorsed my personal wishes to be bold and tender and noble, overcoming the wimp that I was. In that moment, I used up Modigliani's value for my life. But in museums ever since I have been happy to salute his pictures with residually grateful, quick looks.[35]
Schjeldahl reports Meryle Secrest's speculation that Modigliani was happy to let people consider him an alcoholic and drug addict, "and thus to mistake the symptoms of his tuberculosis, which he kept a secret. Drunks were tolerated; carriers of infectious diseases were not."[35]
Selected works[edit]
- Head of a Woman with a Hat (1907)
- Portrait of Juan Gris (1915)
- Portrait of the Art Dealer Paul Guillaume (1916)
- Portrait of Jean Cocteau (1916)
- Seated Nude (ca. 1918) Honolulu Museum of Art
- Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne (1918)
- Woman with a Fan (1919), stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on May 19, 2010 [36] and portrayed in the films "Trance" and Skyfall [37]
- Portrait of Marios Varvoglis (1920; Modigliani's last painting)
Only 27 sculptures by Modigliani are known to exist.[citation needed]
- Head of a Woman (1910/1911).
- Head (1911–1913).
- Head (1911–1912).
- Head (1912).
- Rose Caryatid (1914).
See also[edit]
Modigliani's Young Woman in a Shirt, Smarthistory[38] |
- Painting the Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000
- Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art
- Nude Sitting on a Divan
- Caresse Crosby, ed. (October 1951), Modigliani: Pencil Portraits, Paris: Black Sun Press. Contains a 178-entry bibliography
- Modigliani: A Life, Meryle Secrest, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011, isbn978030726381
- ^ Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 13. ISBN 0-8109-0323-7.
- ^ Secrest, Modigilani, Alfred Knopf, 2011, pp. 16-18
- ^ Secrest (2011), Modigilani,pp. 24-25
- ^ Secrest (2011), Modigilani, pp. 34-35
- ^ Fifield, William (19 June 1978). Modigliani: A Biography. W.H. Allen. p. 316. ISBN 0-491-02164-X.
- ^ Diehl, Gaston (Reissue edition (Jul 1989)). Modigliani. Crown Pub. p. 96. ISBN 0-517-50798-6.
- ^ Soby, James Thrall (Sep 1977). Amedeo Modigliani. New York: Arno P. p. 55.
- ^ Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 14. ISBN 0-8109-0323-7.
- ^ a b Mann, Carol (1980). Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 12. ISBN 0-500-20176-5.
- ^ Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 16. ISBN 0-8109-0323-7.
- ^ a b Mann, Carol (1980). Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 16. ISBN 0-500-20176-5.
- ^ a b c d Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 17. ISBN 0-8109-0323-7.
- ^ Mann, Carol (1980). Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 19–22. ISBN 0-500-20176-5.
- ^ Mann, Carol (1980). Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 20. ISBN 0-500-20176-5.
- ^ "Modigliani Caryatid Drawings". The New Art Gallery Walsall Catalogue. The New Art Gallery Walsall. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
- ^ "Modigliani Caryatid Drawings". The New Art Gallery Walsall. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
- ^ a b Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 19. ISBN 0-8109-0323-7.
- ^ Secrest, Meryle, Modigliani, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, p. 181, 183
- ^ Secrest, Meryle, Modigliani, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, p. 181
- ^ Secrest, Meryle, Modigliani, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, p. 298
- ^ Secrest, Meryle, Modigliani, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, p. 182
- ^ a b Werner, Alfred (1985). Amedeo Modigliani. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 24. ISBN 0-8109-1416-6.
- ^ a b Werner, Alfred (1967). Amedeo Modigliani. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 20. ISBN 0-8109-0323-7.
- ^ Klein, Mason, et al., Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, page 197. The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press, 2004.
- ^ Klein, Mason, et al., 61–62
- ^ Klein, Mason, et al, 62-63
- ^ a b Klein, Mason, et al, 56
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400 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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Pete's Cafe & Bar Details
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
(213) 617-1000
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday: 11:00am - 5:00pm
Daily: 5:00pm - 2:00am
Saturday & Sunday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
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Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Late Night, Non-Smoking Area, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Smoking Area (patio only), Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wine
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A word from Pete's Cafe & Bar
Pete's Cafe & Bar is a friendly neighborhood eatery in the heart of Downtown LA's Old Bank District. We offer a casual atmosphere, very much in the tradition of a New York style bistro. Celebrating 10 years, the high-ceilinged space, with its old-fashioned black-and-white tile floor, long marble-and
-mahogany bar and dramatic view of downtown, is a casual but cosmopolitan setting that suits its menu of American classics with a few interesting wrinkles. Voted "Best American" by the Downtown News, offers a menu featuring grass fed beef, locally sourced ingredients and LA's best Mac 'n Cheese. The assortment of specialty fries, especially the Bleu Cheese Fries are local favorites. Serving food nightly until last call!!
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We have not been downtown for
dinner in years. I was surprised at how much activity there was on the streets and in the restaurants. It was not quite NY on a Saturday, but the energy downtown has increased a lot in the past few years. Pete's Cafe & Bar captured some of that energy with a lot of large groups celebrating a variety of events. I would not recommend for an intimate dinner, but it was a great place to hang out, eat, drink & chat for several hours. We ordered appetizers and main course. The food was good, not over the top amazing but, we were very satisfied. The prices were reasonable and the setting made you feel like you were in another city altogether. I would go back even to just have some snacks & a beer at the bar."
Dined on 3/8/2014
I had made a reservation for 3
people because I knew this place would be packed on a Saturday night. We were celebrating my best friends birthday and wanted to try this place for a while. Reservation was for 9:30pm arrived at 9:20pm. Hostess first of all couldn't find my reservation then when she did she said they had to "go look and see if she could find a table for us". She came back a few minutes later to say she "might have a table in about 20 min" I thought purpose of a reservation was to have a table. She asked if we wanted to wait. What?? They didn't even apologize. I said no thank you and left. Hostess looked relieved we were leaving. Won't ever go back there."
Dined on 3/8/2014
Great spot downtown--excellent
food, prepared with care, and some nice cocktails. Noise level reasonable (the music could be turned down a bit). OK for kids but also for hipsters. Altogether a good bet."
Dined on 3/7/2014
in the heart of downtown, it was
nice to find a good meeting place that was lively but not too hipster! maybe Monday nights are just like that here. food was good, lively atmosphere and friendly staff!"
Dined on 3/3/2014
The food was really good. Their
famous burger lived up to the claim...yummy. The waiter and his helpers were really great.Friendly and outstanding service. Sunday late afternoon before dinner but chef said he would go ahead and make dinner entrees for us. We had a great day in L.A. Ending perfectly with great food and laughter at Petes. Thank you"
Dined on 3/2/2014
Pete's is a place for everyone,
family's, intimate dinners, social gathering, business conversations, friends sharing a bite to eat and drink! I love Pete's!"
Dined on 2/24/2014
We had a nice pre-show dinner at
Pete's. Located in a really cool building (I believe it was a bank in it's previous life), it has a nice feel and cozy bar area with sports TV. Not overly loud or crowded but that could be due to us being there on a Sunday evening. The food was good, not great, but our table did not order any of the entrees so I can't speak for that. We especially enjoyed the butternut squash soup and the mac-n-cheese. Good service. I would recommend it for a casual evening out in L.A. I'll give it another try for lunch and other menu items."
Dined on 2/16/2014
I understand it was Valentine's
Day dinner but being seated for 15 minutes without anyone ever coming to our table to acknowledge our presence let alone deliver some water, is just unacceptable for spending $150+ on dinner for two. 20 minute wait for each round of drinks from the bar and 30 minute wait after that just for the Ahi tuna and Carpaccio appetizers. As awful as the service was, the food was excellent. Torn on returning as this was one of my favorite spots downtown."
Dined on 2/14/2014
Pete's is a great spot for a
weekend brunch. The service is great and the venue has some good options. It's a hip vibe and great for watching the residents of Downtown LA emerge."
Dined on 2/16/2014
7:30 Reservation at Pete's for
Valentine's Day, The place was packed but I was seated immediately. The food was excellent the drinks were great, my girlfriend and I had a excellent time at Pete's. The staff was friendly and courteous, dessert was out of this world. This was the best Valentine's Day ever thank you Pete's."
Dined on 2/14/2014
We always have a great time here.
The food is excellent."
Dined on 2/8/2014
Food was terrific - the fried
chicken salad was excellent and my friend's grilled cheese with soup and fries was terrific. Service was very good and the restaurant is spotless. A great find in downtown LA."
Dined on 2/1/2014
I ordered the flat iron steak with
blue cheese fries and was not disappointed. The food was very good and the portion sizes were perfect. It's admittedly a heavier meal than I usually eat, but still had room to share the delicious bread pudding dessert. I also liked the ambiance of the place. It's more pub-like than diner, so it's cozy and warm. My friend needed to go to the train station to get home, so it's location was very ideal, being only a short drive to drop her off."
Dined on 1/29/2014
Try the Braised Short Rib Pot Pie
- it's fantastic"
Dined on 1/25/2014
Restaurant/bar that's a really
nice atmosphere, easy and casual, with very good brunch menu. Four of us and we enjoyed it all---eggs/hanger steak, pumpkin french toast, a really solid and delicious meal. Service was great, a very nice pace from our server who was on top of it all. A very nice Sunday break with friends."
Dined on 1/26/2014
Very nice warm feeling in this
place. Very convenient if you go to Walt Disney concert hall. Limited but very decent menu."
Dined on 1/18/2014
What happens when a group of six
poets explodes into a party of 14? Pete's staff make it happen. What a wonderful restaurant for a Saturday night repast. The Pete's staff was accommodating, patient, and funny as we got our acts together. Plates of food were gone in no time. Who doesn't like fries---garlic, bleu cheese, frites...? And, who doesn't like pot pie? Pete's does both well. We were a loud, expansive crew, but we were made to feel like we were at home after an afternoon of mourning. Good people. Good place."
Dined on 1/18/2014
I used to work near Pete's. I'm
now retired but a friend and I from disparate parts of the city returned for their blue cheese fries. (We also split a very good Cobb salad, just to pretend we were having something healthy.)"
Dined on 1/16/2014
Truffle fries were so good! I've
actually never had anything here that wasn't really good. Favorites include the burrata plate, the mac & cheese (with Vermont cheddar!) and the burger. Service is inconsistent. This last time it was just ok, but sometimes it's great. Wine list is decent and affordable. I love the atmosphere - it's cozy, warm and not too loud, even at prime time. It's great for small groups. Also, they're open late!"
Dined on 1/11/2014
Got here at 10 (when they open)
for a Sunday brunch. The food was great and the service was friendly and attentive. It's a great old building, too, and has a great vibe inside. Special features:good for groups,great for outdoor dining,great for brunch,neighborhood gem"
Dined on 1/11/2014
We came here before going to the
Ahmanson. Our waiter was attentive, the food came quickly, and the quality was excellent. We've come here before before plays and have never been disappointed. The noise level from the music was a bit loud for us, but our waiter cheerfully relocated us to a quieter table."
Dined on 1/11/2014
Ate before matinee performance at
Ahmansen theater. Would definitely go back! Smoked salmon eggs Benedict were wonderful."
Dined on 1/11/2014
Food is good, right size portions
and good variety. The restaurant was nicely quiet when we arrived but got progressively noisy as the night went on. Fortunately we were done and leaving when it got really busy. Might be a generation thing - we are 55+ and too much noise detracts from the ambience and experience."
Dined on 1/10/2014
The cocktails were terrible. A
Moscow mule is one of the simplest class is drinks you could put one your menu there's no reason to screw that up. As far as the food if the best thing we ate was the cheese platter that's not saying much, all they had t do was buy it and serve it. I don't want I be unfair but the crab cake lacked any texture and I think was possibly frozen."
Dined on 1/10/2014
Pete's Cafe and Grill is a
terrific place to grab some delicious food and a good glass of wine before heading to the theater, dance or opera at the Music Center. The services tends to be a little slow which adds to the laid-back feeling of the joint. It feels historic and familiar at the same time as you munch on a great steak frites looking out on the famous Farmers and Merchants Bank building on Main Street."
Dined on 1/4/2014
My wife and I discovered Pete"s
Cafe last New Year's Eve. And she asked to go again this year. Though its location on 4th and Main is sort of out of the way from the Music Center district, it is close enough and a very fun, worthwhile place to go. Pete's offers a relaxed, yet elegant, atmosphere. And the chef creates delicious and original offerings you won't see at any other downtown restaurant. Our server this year, Stanzi, did a terrific job taking care of us--making us feel welcome and cared about. Really, any of the staff with whom we came in contact were very gracious. And the special New Year's Eve three-course, prix-fixe menu had wonderful choices. We especially liked the parsnip-vanilla bean soup and the caramel creme dessert."
Dined on 12/31/2013
I was looking for a place that was
fairly inexpensive, but that still offered a great selection of entrees and craft cocktails and both Yelp and OpenTable reviews lead me here. My biggest complaint was the food. I ordered the whitefish and the only thing that was the correct temp was the fish, which tasted like it was fresh off the pan, however, it was like my beans had been sitting for a while. My cousin's chicken was dry and overcooked. The garlic fries were lukewarm and seemed like they had cooked them in regular oil, then recooked in garlic oil and topped with chopped garlic cause they were kind of chewy. We were all hungry and had already had quite a bit to drink, so we didn't bring it to our server's attn. I am not likely to return"
Dined on 12/28/2013
Pete's is our go-to place when we
attend productions at the Music Center. They have convenient hours, consistently good food, and a nice vibe to the bar-restaurant combo. Small bites or full meals and an interesting cocktail menu means there is something for everyone. We took our teenaged daughters this last time, and they loved the food and the ambiance. Don't miss the crispy oysters on a spoon or the truffle fries. The servers were friendly and attentive, not pretentious, making the girls feel welcome. We were surprised to find on-street parking a little more difficult this time, and more restaurant activity nearby. Several reasonably-priced lots were available, though. Guess the area is really taking off - good to see."
Dined on 12/22/2013
We had the most delicious meal at
Pete's on Saturday night. The salmon was the best salmon I've ever had. The brussels sprouts and mushrooms were perfect, as was the bread. I had the kale and winter squash salad, which was great. It was just too small. Most restaurants serve a size that was double what I received (and I even asked for extra kale). Although our server was terrific and got everything right, the service was uncomfortably slow. We've eaten at Pete's before, and I don't always remember it being this slow. All in all, I highly recommend the food. If they can enlarge the salads and serve a little more quickly, I'll be a regular customer."
Dined on 12/21/2013
i love pete's and took 2 older
guests this time before a concert a disney hall - i requested a "quiter" area beforehand. we were not seated at the dining room - we ended up near the bar and the side entrance...a very different dining experience than i am used to at pete's. will still return though."
Dined on 12/20/2013
My two college friends and I meet
here often for lunch because we love the food. We always get a large Mac & Cheese and split it three ways, that way we get a good portion without being too bad. And then we get something else to go with it from a burger, to a sandwich to a salad. Then we split two desserts, trying to not pig out too much, but we can't have just one! The service is great, we just met the Executive Chef Michelle and she welcomes us like we're family. The restaurant is beautifully decorated for Christmas now, and many in the area take advantage of the large back room for big gatherings, as I have too! Fantastic place that's also open late so you can come after the Music Center!"
Dined on 12/12/2013
Ordered the lamb bolognese but do
not like mint and the meal description didn't mention it being in there. Waiter was nice enough to take it off the bill. Chicken pot pie was tasty but weren't knocked with the fries with cheese sauce. Seemed like the cheese sauce on chips you get at a ball game. Not what we were looking for."
Dined on 12/6/2013
Been here several times. Never
fails to deliver good food and great service. Perfect for preconcert dinner, just make sure to mention to your server and the kitchen will make sure you are served in a timely manner. Will keep coming back for sure."
Dined on 12/5/2013
For some reason I wasn't impressed
with my dinner. I remember Pete's being top notch & food quality being better, but for some reason this time around it did't hit the spot like it always does. Everything was just OK, no WOW factor. Basil tomato soup was delicious, but the HUGE bun on my hamburger made everything else in the burger look non-existent. If you're going to charge $12 for a burger, choose a better bun that doesn't take away from the burger itself. Husband had mac&cheese, it was good but a little overpowering. For $10 you get the smallest portion of mac&cheese. Not really worth it for noodles&cheese if you ask me. And what happened to the white table clothes? Cutting costs? Maybe that's why food was just ok too..cutting costs."
Dined on 12/3/2013
Had brunch here and was slightly
disappointed. Had the cali benedict, which was lukewarm on the plate and sort of bland. The others at our table had similar responses to their dishes. Okay, but not as good as it could be. Wait staff was professional and attentive."
Dined on 11/30/2013
I've past Pete's Cafe several
times and delighted we finally went. The food was delicious; I had the mussels, which were a bit small and the portion size was unusually average, but it reflected a very fair price. And while I'm used to much larger portions, I was sufficiently full. The flavors were just slightly different from the usual French presentation, but equally tasty. My husband had the lamb with pasta and while he prefers his entrees to be all lamb, he was very pleased, as there was quite a bit of lamb and the flavor was outstanding. We shared the chocolate pot de creme which was so good, and not too sweet The ambience is just so comfortable - a bit dark which makes the place feel cozy and the tables are not on top of each other."
Dined on 11/29/2013
I decided to eat here on a rather
impromptu Thanksgiving Dinner excursion. They offered a 3 course meal that included soup, a main course and desert. It was very filling and very festive. The turkey Paillard was moist and the sides where good as well. The soup was a pumpkin bisque of sorts that was very rich. The other sides included their classic mac & cheese and wild rice stuffing. Both were nicely prepared. For desert I selected their classic bread pudding. All in all this was a very rich meal but right in line with the holiday. The service was nice. The restaurant wasn't too busy."
Dined on 11/28/2013
Food was very good. Best price in
town for a prix-fixe Thanksgiving menu. Everyone left more than "full"-filled."
Dined on 11/28/2013
Pete's is a lively neighborhood
bar and restaurant situated near downtown LA's art district and close to various trendy clubs. While moderately priced, the chef's offerings are creative, the food is consistently tasty and satisfying, the atmosphere casually hip and upbeat but not so loud it precludes conversation. A great place to eat, drink, talk and relax on a night out with friends. Pete's is a favorite that always draws me back."
Dined on 11/16/2013
It is not always easy for
restaurants to accomodate large groups and often times limit the menu selection to two or three items. Our group of 13 showed up on a Tuesday close to lunch time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of our Health Clinic on Skid Row and thank the staff who work so tirelessly. Our waitress was responsive, took the orders quickly and our food came out in a very timely manner -- all of it still warm (if it was supposed to be) and no one had to correct their order. All agreed the food was very good and that we will be back. Thanks Pete's!"
Dined on 11/12/2013
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Yes, the Royals are hitting .309 and have scored 104 runs in 18 Spring Training games, but manager Buddy Bell is not all that happy with his bats.
In a 6-3 loss on Saturday to the Diamondbacks before 10,674 fans, the second largest crowd in Surprise Stadium history, the Royals managed just seven hits, six of them singles, and struck out eight times. Starter Gil Meche didn't make it out of the fourth inning, but that did not concern Bell. "He got his work in," Bell said. "I'm not worried about him. I'm worried about the offense more than anything. It's awful. It's about as bad ..." Bell did not finish the sentence, nor did he need to. The Royals' lack of a clutch hit early told the story. The Royals scored a run in the first and had the bases loaded with one out, but Reggie Sanders popped up to the catcher and Ryan Shealy's grounder to shortstop forced out Alex Gordon at second base to end the inning. In the second, the Royals scored two more runs, but Alex Sanchez scored the second run when Ross Gload grounded into a double play with runners on the corners and none out. The Royals again loaded the bases in the fifth on a Gload single and two walks, but Shealy took a called third strike to end the inning without a runner crossing the plate. "We need to start swinging the bats, start getting after it, be more aggressive," Bell said. "That's not just today. I've been seeing that for awhile. We need to get it going down here a little more than we have. MLB.com coverage | Schedule | Ballpark | Tickets
"I just don't think we're aggressive enough. How many third strikes did we take today -- seven or eight? That's not good. And I realize some of them are kids that we bring up. I'm not talking about them."
Shealy, Gload and Sanders, however, are players the Royals will be counting on when the season starts. "I think we can be better," Bell said. "I just think we need to get better. I think we need to be more aggressive early in the count. I just think we are capable of doing a lot more offensively than we have up to this point. I understand that you kind of go through ups and downs in Spring Training, whether it is pitching or offense." With the season opening on April 2 against the Red Sox, Bell wants to see his offense pick it up the next two weeks. "I get a little impatient," Bell said. "I just want us to be hitting some sort of stride when we go into the season, so I get a little anxious with it. You can always do better."Alan Eskew is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) - Zach Wamsley scored on a 1-yard run in overtime and quarterback Trenton Gibbs converted the two-point conversion run to give Wahama a 43-42 overtime win over Madonna in the Class A championship game Saturday night.
It was the highest scoring championship game in Class A history, breaking the mark of 53 points in Sistersville's 42-11 win over Fayetteville in 1984.
No. 3 seeded Wahama (14-0) earned its first state title.
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The Wahama Falcons celebrate winning the West Virginia state Class A championship football game against Madonna in Wheeling Saturday. Wahama defeated Madonna, 43-42.
Ross Comis had a record six touchdowns for No. 4 Madonna (12-2), including five on the ground.
His touchdown pass tied the game with 47 seconds left in regulation and his 2-yard TD run in overtime, along with the extra-point kick, put the Blue Dons ahead 42-35.
Wahama got the ball at the 20 and needed three plays to score.
After a timeout to set up the conversion play, Gibbs ran outside left tackle into the end zone to seal the championship.
Kane Roush finished with 170 rushing yards, Wamsley had 112 and both scored three times for Wahama.
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Alright. these are the badges I just made on MS Paint. I'm thinking about opening an art shop, but I REALLY need to improve my artwork, because my only art- creation tool is, well, Paint.
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Hi! I love this tutorial! So, I tried to make 2 badges, one of Pansear's head and the other with Panpour's head:
Feedback? Thanks!
I am an amateur graphics artist. xD
Nice drawn badges NightKazy, it would be actually really cool if you could trace them and rezise them in Photoshop!
I also made some new badges
Your badges look so much better than mine Azulart. I love all of them. Also, I can't afford Photoshop. :/
Here's my attempt at a Gyarados badge, I made 2 versions and not sure which one I prefer.
Let me know what you think! I don't have a tablet so have done it all on GIMP.
Think I need to make the light grey border a little thicker and lighter. Not sure.
This is such a creative and cute idea
Thank's for the tutoring!
Hi everyone!
Some of us in the Wifi League are going to open a new league very soon, and unfortunately none of us are very gifted with Photoshop.. :/
We're looking for someone who might be able to design badges for us?
I tried making some, though unfortunately they're not coming out as professional looking as we'd hoped:
Please do PM me if you're willing and would be able to make similar looking badge designs, please!
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In his homily at the 61st annual Red Mass in the nation's capital, Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said that the Holy Spirit can help people seek unity and work for the common good.
"The Holy Spirit is the source of unity on all that matters, and the source of variety in and among the many differences we have that make us who we are," Bishop Farrell said Oct. 6. He said that the Holy Spirit, as it did at the first Pentecost, today "bestows wisdom, clarity, insight and, yes, unity."
The annual Mass is held on the Sunday before the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new session on the first Monday of October, and it is sponsored by the John Carroll Society of the Archdiocese of Washington.
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington was the principal celebrant at the Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Concelebrants included Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington, Va.
The Mass is celebrated to invoke God's blessings on those who work in the administration of justice.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and four current Supreme Court justices attended the Mass, Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan. Denis McDonough, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, also attended the Mass.
Cardinals William W. Baum and Theodore E. McCarrick, both former archbishops of Washington, were there, as were judges and attorneys, and deans, professors and students from local law schools.
Bishop Farrell noted that he was making a homecoming to Washington, where he had served as a priest and administrator from the early 1980s until being ordained as an auxiliary bishop there in 2002. Five years later, he was named to head the Dallas Diocese.
While not mentioning the federal government shutdown and the budget impasse between Congress and the White House, the bishop in his homily did speak about how people should work together and respect each other.
"We can and should debate, refine positions, truly listen to each other and seek consensus on essentials and respect details that may well be different," Bishop Farrell said, adding that "if dialogue means anything, it means not only that we take another seriously, but it means that we revere the other as a fellow human being with gifts and talents from God."
The bishop also later noted, "Petty partisanship and ever-politicizing rhetoric should have no place when men and women of good will come together to serve the common good."
Concelebrants of the Mass, who also included Washington Auxiliary Bishops Martin D. Holley and Barry C. Knestout and retired Auxiliary Bishop Leonard J. Olivier and 30 priests, wore red vestments as a sign of the tongues of fire sparked by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Bishop Farrell noted that the Mass offered a time to invoke the power of the Holy Spirit "on our nation's highest court and on our nation's elected officials."
During his years in the Archdiocese of Washington, Bishop Farrell directed the Spanish Catholic Center and Catholic Charities, and was archdiocesan secretary of finance and later as the archdiocese's vicar general for administration and moderator of the curia.
In his homily, Bishop Farrell did not mention the immigration reform debate that has been stymied by the shutdown, but he did emphasize the importance of welcoming newcomers.
He highlighted the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Washington parish founded in the 19th century by Irish and German immigrants that now serves many different immigrant populations, with weekend Masses in Spanish, Vietnamese, Creole and English.
"The parish also does what so many parishes do today," he said. "They welcome the stranger in our midst in new and ever-changing circumstances. The immigrants who built the church building and the immigrants who populate the church today had and have very different needs.
"The languages spoken are many, and it is from the many languages that we and they offer praise and thanks to God for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on these shores."
Bishop Farrell also emphasized the importance of loving and serving the poor. "We serve all in need, not because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholic. That is our mission and our ministry. That is not just what we do; it is who we are," he said.
The bishop also noted how Catholics "believe in the dignity of each and every human being made in the image and likeness of God." Catholics, he said, have the right and responsibility to stand up for their beliefs in the public square. "However, in a pluralistic society, we also need to be respectful of those who do not agree with or follow our teachings."
The bishop, a native of Ireland who himself is an immigrant who found a home in Washington and then Dallas, said: "When we see and revere in the other person of a different color or creed or ethnic background the image and likeness of God, then we together can move forward as God's pilgrims on this good earth. When we remove obstacles in the way of welcoming the stranger in our midst, then we truly reflect the best of what this country stands for as a nation of immigrants."
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