Photograph of Alberto Giacometti by Henri Cartier-Bresson

'Woman with Her Throat Cut', a floor sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, 1932 (cast 1949), Museum of Modern Art, (New York City)

'Three Men Walking II', by Alberto Giacometti, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1949

Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (465 × 700 pixel, file size: 73 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photograph of Alberto Giacometti by Henri Cartier-Bresson Fair use rationale: This is a historically significant work that could not be conveyed in words. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (465 × 700 pixel, file size: 73 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Photograph of Alberto Giacometti by Henri Cartier-Bresson Fair use rationale: This is a historically significant work that could not be conveyed in words. ... JOE.A LOVES LAUREN.M Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (525 × 700 pixel, file size: 32 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Woman with Her Throat Cut, a floor sculpture by Giacometti, 1932 (cast 1949), Museum of Modern Art, (New York City) Fair use rationale: This is a... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (525 × 700 pixel, file size: 32 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Woman with Her Throat Cut, a floor sculpture by Giacometti, 1932 (cast 1949), Museum of Modern Art, (New York City) Fair use rationale: This is a... This article is about the museum in New York City. ... Download high resolution version (480x641, 81 KB)Three Men Walking II in Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... Download high resolution version (480x641, 81 KB)Three Men Walking II in Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as the Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ...

Career

Born in Borgonovo, now part of the Swiss municipality Stampa, near the Italian border, Alberto Giacometti was the son of Giovanni Giacometti. He moved to Geneva to attend the School of Fine Arts. Stampa is a municipality in the district of Maloja, in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. ...

In 1922 he moved to Paris to study under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, an associate of Auguste Rodin. It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading surrealist sculptors. Among his associates were Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso and Balthus. Antoine Bourdelle (October 30, 1861 _ October 1, 1929) was a French sculptor and teacher. ... Auguste Rodin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Pablo Picasso, Le guitariste, 1910 Juan Gris, Portrait of Picasso, 1912, oil on canvas Georges BraqueWoman with a guitar, 1913 Juan Gris, Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin, 1919, oil on canvas Cubist villa in Prague, Czech Republic Cubist House of the Black Madonna, Prague, Czech Republic, 1912 Cubism... Max Ernst. ... Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish (Catalan) painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain to the family of a Goldsmith and Watchmaker. ... Max Ernst (2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism. ... Picasso redirects here. ... Nude with arms raised, oil on canvas, 1951 by Balthus Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. ...

Alberto Giacometti, Cat, 1954, Metropolitan Museum of Art

From 1936 to 1940 Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the model's gaze, followed by a unique artistic phase in which his statues became stretched out; their limbs elongated. Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisioned through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation. A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, "he would make your head look like the blade of a knife." After his marriage his tiny sculptures became larger, but the larger they grew, the thinner they became. Giacometti said that the final result represented the sensation he felt when he looked at a woman. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 331 pixelsFull resolution (801 × 331 pixel, file size: 36 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)16:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)}} Cat by Giacometti, 1954, Metropolitan Museum of Art Fair use rationale: This is a historically significant work that could not... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 331 pixelsFull resolution (801 × 331 pixel, file size: 36 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)16:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)}} Cat by Giacometti, 1954, Metropolitan Museum of Art Fair use rationale: This is a historically significant work that could not... Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as the Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ...

'Woman of Venice (II)', painted bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, 1956, Metropolitan Museum of Art

His paintings underwent a parallel procedure. The figures appear isolated, are severely attenuated, and are the result of continuous reworking. Subjects were frequently revisited: one of his favorite models was his brother Diego Giacometti.^[1] Metropolitan Museum of Art New York Elevation The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as the Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ...

Later years

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide celebrity. Even when he had achieved popularity and his works were in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. Detail of exhibition. ...

The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti - The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970.

In his later years, Giacometti's works were shown in a number of large exhibitions throughout Europe. Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he traveled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the New York Museum of Modern Art. This article is about the museum in New York City. ...

As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.

Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents. Bronchitis is an inflammation of the bronchi (medium-size airways) in the lungs. ... Chur (French: Coire, German Chur (khoor) [kuːr] (in Graubünden); [xuːr] (elsewhere), Romansh Cuira (KWAY-rah) [ˈkwera] or (KWOI-rah) [ˈkwojra], Italian Coira (KOI-rah) [ˈkojra], Latin: Curia, Curia Rhaetorum and Curia Raetorum), is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and lies in the northern...

Artistic analysis

Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist, others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls 'blocs of sensation' (as in Deleuze's analysis of Francis Bacon). Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group, while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation, the end products were an expression of his emotional response to the subject. He attempted to create renditions of his models the way he saw them, and the way he thought they ought to be seen. He once said that he was sculpting not the human figure but "the shadow that is cast." Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a major French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... For other persons named Francis Bacon, see Francis Bacon (disambiguation). ...

Scholar William Barrett in Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1962), argues that the attenuated forms of Giacometti's figures reflect the view of 20th century modernism and existentialism that modern life is increasingly devoid of meaning and empty. "All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life." William Barrett (1913-1992) was a professor of philosophy at New York University. ... For Christian theological modernism, see Liberal Christianity and Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ...

Legacy

His work is in numerous public collections, including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery.^[2] Kunsthaus Zürich Johann Heinrich Füssli: Die drei Hexen (the three witches) Kunsthaus Zürich, located at Heimplatz 1 in Zürich, Switzerland, is one of the most important art museums of the country. ... This article is about the museum in New York City. ... Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (Doù venons-nous? Que faisons-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897). ... The front of the Guggenheim Museum from 5th Avenue This article refers to the Guggenheim Museum in the upper east side of Manhattan (New York). ... The Art Institute of Chicago is a fine art museum located in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW) is a foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 to support scientific research. ... City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ... Gerda Taro (real name Gerda Pohorylles; 1911 - Spain 1937) was a German war photographer of Polish origins, very close friend, partner, companion and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War. ... Looking down the hill at Père-Lachaise. ...

In 2001 he was included in the Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 was a major international exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2000-2001 that exhibited a work for each year of the Twentieth Century. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in St Martins Place, London, England, which opened to the public in 1856. ...

In November 2000 Grande Femme Debout I by Giacometti sold for $14.3 million.[1] USD redirects here. ...

Giacometti and his sculpture Three Men Walking appear on the current 100 Swiss Franc banknote... The first banknotes in Switzerland were issued in 1907. ...

See also

• Bruno Giacometti, his brother, an architect

Notes

References

• Jacques Dupin (1962) "Alberto Giacometti", Paris, Maeght
• Reinhold Hohl (1971) "Alberto Giacometti", Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje
• Die Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung (1990), Zürich, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft
• Alberto Giacometti. Sculptures - peintures - dessins. Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1991-92.
• Jean Soldini (1993) "Alberto Giacometti. Le colossal, la mère, le sacré", Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme
• David Sylvester (1996) Looking at Giacometti, Henry Holt & Co.
• Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966. Kunsthalle Wien, 1996
• James Lord (1997) Giacometti: A Biography, Farrar, Straus and Giroux* Alberto Giacometti. Kunsthaus Zürich, 2001; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2001-2002.
• Yves Bonnefoy (2006) Alberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work, New edition, Flammarion

External links

• Museum of Modern Art
• smARThistory: Giacometti's City Square
• UNESCO works of art collection