Word: giacomettis
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...Paulo's 1951 Bienal, Sculptress Richier, 52, does not see beauty as the world usually views it. Says she: "I am more attracted by the trunk of a dead tree than by an apple tree in full bloom." Along with such dissimilar sculptors as Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti and Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment of metamorphosis, when half-glimpsed form begins to emerge from mute matter...
...20th century when he decided that "the Greek [style] is the great error, beautiful though it is," and plunged off to Tahiti to capture the expressive power of primitive art. In the hands of such moderns as Painters Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Sculptors Brancusi, Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, this source of inspiration has not only produced new art; it has also caused primitive art itself to be reassessed. The rise of primitive works from artifact to art is currently being demonstrated by the first showing of the Baltimore Museum of Art's handsome 196-piece collection of Oceanic...
...exclusively to such safe 19th century American classics as George Caleb Bingham, George Inness and Thomas Eakins, and the Midwest's Big Three, Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry. They are also willing to bet their money on modern European masters-Braque, Matisse, Henry Moore and Giacometti-and the still-debated U.S. Painters Max Weber and the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi (opposite...
Crazy, Absurd Activity. For years, Giacometti destroyed his work as fast as he produced it, but by war's end he began saving and showing the gangling figures and groups, which seem to some eyes to float in a mysterious time and space of their own. An intense, modest man in frayed cuffs and baggy pants, Giacometti has not let success dull his adventurous dissatisfaction...
...most recent men and women are gaining in weight. "They eat too much," he jokes. He is experimenting also in drawing and painting. Where it will lead, Alberto Giacometti does not know. "Art is not a science," says he. "It is a crazy thing, an absurd activity . . . If I had been able to resolve the problem, I would have ceased to work...