Word: giacometti
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Alberto Giacometti died at 65 in his native Switzerland eight years ago, he was already a figure of legend. His seamed casque of a head (like that of a Renaissance condottiere) and his cramped, dust-floured studio in Paris, had become almost as famous as Picasso's simian mask and opulent villas. He was, it seemed, the existentialist answer to Mediterranean man. And as such he appeared to be one of the very few sculptors who, in the 20th century, had discovered a fresh convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
...return to the limits of graphic art, Arikha has produced some of the most remarkable images on paper since the death of Giacometti. Arikha's drawings of landscapes, old shoes and coats, his own face or that of a friend like Samuel Beckett, may seem frustrating at first. They look messy and disclose themselves slowly. None of the hard, wiry line of pen or silverpoint here; the brush (the kind used in Japan for sumi-e or ink painting) flits and stumbles across the roughly textured page, leaving behind tiny marks that seem knitted or crocheted together...
What direction would Lehmbruck's art have taken if he had lived? Perhaps toward the kind of immobile, space-arresting thinness that Giacometti achieved. But that seems unlikely, for there is an intrinsic sentimentality to Lehmbruck's work that almost precludes the possibility of such absolute concentration...