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Alberto Giacometti. Man Pointing. 1947. Frail yet erect, a man gestures with his left arm and points with his right. We have no idea what he points to, or why. Anonymous and alone, he is also almost a skeleton. For the Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in fact, Giacometti's sculpture was "always halfway between nothingness and being."
In this engraving, entitled Composition 1935 (p.183) Giacometti reduces the forms of Figure in Front of a Wall to a simple geometrical assemblage and attains a second, pared-down version of the drawing created two years earlier. The apparent geometrical coldness of Composition is ‘warmed up’ by the perceptible reference to more expressive ...
As early as the 1930s Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) won heartfelt recognition among the bohemian community in Paris; in the 1940s he became popular in America thanks to shows at Pierre H. Matisse's gallery; and in the 1950s he became an undisputed leader of the European avant-garde. But until now the work of this legendary, internationally ...
Art interests me greatly, but truth interests me infinitely more. —Alberto Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) devoted much of his career to the struggle between matter and meaning, engaging in an extended exploration of how to reduce the figure’s mass as far as possible while imbuing it with essential force.
Giacometti originally intended Woman with Her Throat Cut to rest directly on the floor, part of the "real" world, distanced from the lofty realm of art. A hybrid animal, insect, and human, the female figure's body appears to be simultaneously in the throes of sexual ecstasy and in the spasms of death—embodying the phrase petite mort (little death), a French term for orgasm.
Jan 16, 2013 · Giacometti Inspired Figure Sculptures. January 16, 2013 by Anna Ranson. Create some beautiful sculptural figure art with kids based on the work of Alberto Giacometti! Simple to create yet so effective, an as a bonus it is a great way to teach about body structure and anatomy with young children.
Jan 23, 2024 · Giacometti knows that space is a cancer that destroys being, and feeds on everything: to sculpt, for him, is to reduce to the essential. --Alberto Giacometti . Alberto Giacometti created a varied body of sculptures, paintings, and drawings, but he is best known for his sculptures of tall, thin, and rigid women and men often mounted on large bases.
