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Walking Man and other human figures. Giacometti is best known for the bronze sculptures of tall, thin human figures, made in the years 1945 to 1960. [23] Giacometti was influenced by the impressions he took from the people hurrying in the big city. People in motion he saw as "a succession of moments of stillness".
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Jun 16, 2021 · What’s not to like about an extraordinary platform bearing nine Alberto Giacometti bronze sculptures, luxuriously displayed before a wall painted luscious aubergine?
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Femme Debout I (Standing Woman I); 1960; Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901 - 1966); Bronze; Object: 267.3 × 34.3 × 54.9 cm, 54.8852 kg (105 1/4 × 13 1/2 × 21 5/8 in., 121 lb.); 2005.107 The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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Jan 23, 2024 · 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. In the destructive wake of World War II, these figures--skeletal, seemingly anonymous and isolated--were embraced as powerful metaphors of the human condition.
The Forest (Composition with Seven Figures and a Head) Alberto Giacometti Swiss. 1950. Not on view. The artist recalled that the arrangement of figures in this work was arrived at almost by accident. He placed some figures and heads on the floor at random.
Alberto Giacometti's remarkable career traces the shifting enthusiasms of European art before and after the Second World War. As a Surrealist in the 1930s, he devised innovative sculptural forms, sometimes reminiscent of toys and games.
Nov 4, 2023 · Alberto Giacometti's Femme de Venise VIII. Conceived in 1956 with the first examples cast in bronze the following year, the present sculpture is number eight in Giacometti's celebrated series of nine standing female nudes, collectively known as the Femmes de Venise.
