Giacometti, Alberto (1901-1966) - 1961 Annette (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.)

            Oil on canvas;   54.8 X 46.0 cm

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He was born in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and came from an artistic background; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known Post-Impressionist painter. From the beginning, he was interested in art. Throughout his life, Giacometti was devoted to portraying the human figure in various styles and media. In 1922 he moved to Paris to study with Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin’s protégé. From 1925 to 1929, he created Cubistic works and abstract linear constructions drawing on the simplicity and totemic frontality of African carvings. These brought him to the attention of the Surrealists, with whom he became aligned until 1935.

Giacometti’s postwar figure sculptures had skeletal bodies with gouged surfaces that surpassed the expressiveness of Rodin. The combination of fixed frontal stares and ravaged surfaces effectively keep the viewer at a distance, for seen up close the features dissolve into daubs and irregular textures. Giacometti’s paintings have a similar effect, worked and reworked into a skein of lines and color floating in diffuse fields—reflecting the artist’s belief in the Existentialist premise that one cannot fully know or experience the reality of another person, and that this separateness underlies our daily consciousness.

Taken on: February 20, 2010

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