See all News for Alberto Giacometti. Through November 27, Seattle Art Museum www. Lang and Jane Lang Davis. Dating from to , the paintings, drawings, and sculptures in Frisson represent mature works and pivotal moments of artistic development from some of the most influential American and European artists of the postwar period. Photo: Spike Mafford. June 22—October 10, Institut Giacometti, Paris www. Modest, immediate, and direct, drawing was the ideal medium for this period of renewal.
The exhibition looks across movements, geographies, and generations to highlight connections between artists who shared common materials and ideas between and October 10, —May 30, Moderna Museet, Stockholm www.
See all Museum Exhibitions for Alberto Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti, Petit homme sur socle , c. Alberto Giacometti, Annette debout , c. Fondation Giacometti, Paris. Alberto Giacometti grew up in Switzerland in the Val Bregaglia alpine valley, a few kilometers from the Swiss-Italian border. His father, Giovanni Giacometti was an impressionist painter esteemed by Swiss collectors and artists. He shared his thoughts with his son on art and the nature of art. When the young artist developed an interest in African art in , it was no longer a novelty for the modern artists of the previous generation Picasso, Derain ; it had even become popularized to the point of becoming decorative.
Despite his being expelled in February , surrealist procedures continued to play an important part in his creative work: dreamlike visions, montage and assemblage, objects with metaphorical functions, and magical treatment of the figure. In that year, the representation of a head, which seemed to be a common-or-garden subject, was, for him, far from being resolved. The head and, above all, the eyes are the core of the human being and of life, whose mystery fascinated him.
It was in Switzerland, where Giacometti spent the Second World War, that he had the idea in for the sculpture which would be the prototype for his postwar standing figures: the Woman with Chariot, which depicts the image of his English friend Isabel from memory. In and , Giacometti witnessed two deaths which left him with an indelible memory. These portraits, devoid of all emotion and expression, are the receptacle of what the spectator brings to them. What was involved for the artist was capturing and rendering the vibration of the life of his models and not their psychology.
Giacometti produced his first prints — wood etchings — alongside his father when he was still a schoolboy. Despite this, Giacometti continued to work from the same space for the rest of his career and hosted many cultural figures there, including philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist Samuel Beckett, artist Henri Matisse and actress Marlene Dietrich.
As the artist states. I cannot simultaneously see the eyes, the hands, and the feet of a person standing two or three yards in front of me, but the only part that I do look at entails a sensation of the existence of everything. During the s, Giacometti produced decorative objects as a means of earning a living: lamps, vases, jewellery and wall reliefs. He collaborated with well-known interior designer Jean Michel Frank and was supported by his brother Diego, who was to become a designer of his own furniture pieces and sculptures later.
He did not think of the decorative arts as minor and on several occasions his decorative works influenced his practice as a sculptor, and vice versa. He said,. David Sainsbury recalls his teenage experience of sitting for a portrait by Alberto Giacometti in From their sense of style, to their late-night run-ins, explore the friendship between the artist and playwright.
Main menu additional Become a Member Shop. And they will make their first appearance at a major retrospective opening at Tate Modern in London next month. It will be his first major exhibition in London for a decade. Giacometti was born in a remote Swiss valley in , the son of a successful, conventionally realist Swiss painter. He made his first sculpture of his brother Diego at the age of 13, and swiftly dedicated himself to art. The themes of this decade are sex and death. Woman With Her Throat Cut , with its violently intersecting blades, is an image of rape and murder.
But he was also concerned with more everyday sensations. Perhaps his most powerful work is known by two contradictory titles, Hands Holding the Void and Imaginary Object This is still one of the most brilliant evocations of the relationship between looking and touching.
With those fingers, closed around the imaginary object, he evokes the sensation of touching and being touched. This was a turning point for Giacometti: although he was pleased with the hands and head, he was dissatisfied with the legs, torso and breasts.
He disappointed Breton by deciding that he needed to work from nature. A model was hired and he embarked on a week-long stint of working from life that extended to 20 years.
During the second world war, Giacometti returned to Switzerland. There he met Annette Arm, the ingenuous and adoring girl who seems to have decided almost immediately that she would share his life, and waited patiently for him to agree. Living in a hotel with her in Geneva, he sculpted smaller and smaller figures, claiming that they shrank against his will.
Many were only the size of a finger. After he returned to Paris in , he had a vision that enabled him to break away from the miniature.
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