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Dec 7, 2023 · Giacometti created fifteen clay sculptures, but all of them were mutually exclusive, made from a single piece of clay on a single carcass. Out of fifteen figures, only nine were cast in bronze. Giacometti insisted that there was no progress in the series and every sculpture was just as provisional as the first one.
Alberto Giacometti (born October 10, 1901, Borgonovo, Switzerland—died January 11, 1966, Chur) was a Swiss sculptor and painter, best known for his attenuated sculptures of solitary figures. His work has been compared to that of the existentialists in literature. Giacometti displayed precocious talent and was much encouraged by his father ...
Apr 4, 2024 · She was his regular model along with Diego. Many excellent paintings and sculptures were of them both. In 1947, gallery owner Pierre Matisse put on Giacometti’s first solo show in New York. The ...
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Jun 5, 2017 · Giacometti was an artist both rooted in the exact and transported by the visionary. He was a maker and a seer, a craftsman and an alchemist. In advance of his retrospective at Tate Modern, Tate Etc. explores the life and work of the artist whose sculptures were filled with 'iconic dignity, a stillness, a solitariness, a sense of a dense inner life'
Giacometti's sculpture "The Hand" (1947) was inspired by his favorite story of Balzac — the artist left many sketches on the margins of his favorite book. He literally made an illustration to the words of one of the story's characters who said that the plaster cast of a live person's hand forever remains but a dead mass: "The aim of art is ...
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker, Alberto Giacometti is one of the most popular twentieth century sculptors. He trained initially in Italy, then in Paris where he was influenced by Constantin Brancusi and joined the Surrealism movement. His late-1920s and 1930s sculpture has been dubbed "still ...
Jun 6, 2018 · In “Suspended Ball” (1930-31), perhaps the greatest of Giacometti’s early sculptures, a sphere with a cleft in its backside dangles from a string in a cage — teasing but never touching a ...
