Early Modern Portraits
Long necks, bold outlines and golden patterns: the portrait reinvented in the early 1900s.
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About Early Modern Portraits
In the early 20th century painters freed the portrait from likeness alone. Henri Matisse painted his wife with a green line down her face in "The Green Stripe" (1905). Gustav Klimt surrounded "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" (1907) with gold. Egon Schiele painted "Portrait of Wally" (1912) with sharp, nervous lines.
Amedeo Modigliani painted long, almond-eyed faces, including many portraits of Jeanne Hébuterne.














































































