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.
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