Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a surrealist sculptor and painter. Giacometti was talented in four mediums — sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking.

Artistic Analysis

Giacometti was a key player in the Existentialist movement and his work can be best described as Formalist. Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group, while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation, the end products were undoubtedly an expression, not of the physical form of the subject, but of his emotional response to it. He attempted to create renditions of his models the way he saw them, and the way he thought they ought to be seen.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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