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In his Fifties and Sixties heyday, Alberto Giacometti was seen as a sculptor who did portraits on the side.
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Alberto Giacometti was a visionary artist famous for his sculptures of slender and isolated figures. Here you’ll find 5 things to know about the artist.
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Although Alberto Giacometti is most often remembered for his towering statues and landscape paintings, the artist began every new project with a sketch. Preferring either a ballpoint pen or pencil, he referred to the act of drawing as the “basis” for all of his artworks. In Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure—the extensive retrospective which …
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Alberto Giacometti. Tall Figure, III. 1960. Bronze. 7' 9" x 11 5/8" x 20 5/8" (236.2 x 29.5 x 52.4 cm). Gift of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft in honor of the artist. 1083.1969. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Painting and Sculpture
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The sculptor Alberto Giacometti said, "Sometimes it's very tempting to be satisfied with what's easy, particularly if people tell you it's good....What's essential is to work without any preconception whatever, without knowing in advance what the picture is going to...
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Giacometti was born into a Swiss family of artists. His early work was informed by Surrealism and Cubism, but in 1947 he settled into producing the kind of expressionist sculpture for which he is best known
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