Woman with Blue Eyes 1918 by Amedeo Modigliani

Woman with Blue Eyes 1918 by Amedeo Modigliani
Woman with Blue Eyes 1918 by Amedeo Modigliani

The neutral backgrounds of these portrait, Woman in Blue Eyes, underscores the tactile value of the sitters' faces. While the art of this period was increasingly domi-nated by analytic ap-proaches, Modigliani, in keeping with his own traditional view of the painter's role, remained more concerned with the specifically tangible aspects of art.