Editing Amedeo Modigliani (section)

===Influences===
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]], [[Dada]]ism, [[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 and 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'attardes pas avec l'avant-garde" ("Don't wait with the avant-garde").<ref>Secrest, Meryle, ''Modigliani'', Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, pp. 346–47</ref> [[Pseudo-goitre]], a medical condition, is also known as Modigliani syndrome. This name was derived from the curved neck of women in Modigliani's paintings which appeared like pseudogoitre.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Burch M|first1=Warner|title=100 Questions and Answers about thyroid disorders|date=3 July 2008|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publications|isbn=9781449630836|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7X1xT4XZWfkC&q=modigliani+syndrome&pg=PA21|access-date=14 December 2016}}</ref>

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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 his daughter, [[Jeanne Modigliani|Jeanne]] (1918–1984). As an adult, she wrote a biography of her father titled ''Modigliani: Man and Myth''.