Alberto Giacometti: The real can't be shared.

It was well known that he could fit everything created during the war years into a matchbox.
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Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti
Switzerland October 10, 1901 - January 11, 1966
One of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.
Philosophical questions about the human condition and existential and phenomenological debates played an important role in his work, and around 1935 he abandoned the influence of Surrealism in favor of a more in-depth analysis of figurative works. Giacometti wrote texts for journals and exhibition catalogs and recorded his thoughts and memories in notebooks and diaries. His critical nature led to self-doubt about his work and a belief that he could not do justice to his artistic vision. Nonetheless, his insecurities remained a powerful artistic motivator throughout his life.
Between 1938 and 1944, Giacometti's sculptures reached a maximum height of 7 centimeters (2.75 inches). Their small size reflected the actual distance between the artist's position and the model. In this context, he said self-critically, "But trying to create what I see from memory, to my horror, the sculptures become smaller and smaller."
Capturing the way the figure exists in space is central to Giacometti's artistic practice, both in sculpture and painting. After the Second World War, Giacometti created his most famous sculptures: the most iconic works: slender, slender, powerfully shaped sculptures of men and women, including Man Pointing, Man Walking, Man Falling, Woman Standing, and, later, Woman in Venice. His nearest and dearest, his wife Annette and brother Diego, became his primary models in his relentless pursuit of his artistic vision.
These sculptures were influenced by his personal viewing experience - between the imaginary and the real, the tangible and the inaccessible space.
In 1948, many of them were shown in the artist's breakthrough solo exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York. Giacometti's paintings constitute a very small part of his total oeuvre. After 1957, however, his figurative paintings became as popular as his sculptures. The almost monochromatic paintings of his later works do not refer to any other style of modern art.
In 1962, he won the Grand Prix for sculpture at the Venice Biennale. In the penultimate year of his life, the then internationally acclaimed artist had further exhibitions at the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the same year, he was awarded the Prix National des Arts by the French government. Giacometti died on January 11, 1966 in Kur, Switzerland.
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