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...rickety gate. A casual passerby might think it a garage, but one peek through the window would probably give him a jolting surprise. The small. 12-by-15-ft. room is the private world of one of the world's most original sculptors: wiry, bushy-haired Alberto Giacometti. 53. In 28 years, a good deal of Giacometti has rubbed off onto the floors and walls of his bare, grey studio. The workbench is encrusted with old paint drippings and scabs of plaster. Cigarette butts cover the cement floor. The walls are acrawl with hasty sketches and doodles. Over...
...centuries into the future. Etruscan art, in turn influenced by Greek and Roman art, even went through a surrealist stage. Etruscan artists turned out long, sticklike figurines with just a suggestion of head, breasts, knees and feet. They could pass for the current work of modern Swiss Sculptor Alberto Giacometti...
...remain emphatically stonelike, with a sense of the prehistory mystery which man has long attributed to curiously shaped boulders and strange stone outcroppings. This gives an awesome touch to Wotruba's figures, as effective in their blunt massiveness as the matchstick-thin figures of France's Alberto Giacometti...
...children's squiggles, others the splotched fantasies of the mad. Still others are made entirely of dots, or squares, or crosshatchings, or Oriental arabesques. Some of his pictures are composed simply of illegible script-foreshadowing Cartoonist Saul Steinberg. He illustrated Candide with raggedy stick figures of the sort Giacometti and George Grosz were later to employ, and created telling juxtapositions (e.g., a bird engraved on a cat's forehead) that inspired the surrealists. He drew and painted on everything, from glass to burlap, and always with iron control. Klee's demons almost never failed...
Kiesler's "galaxies" are not startlingly beautiful, but they are more original than any art novelty of the past decade-including Picasso's ceramics, Giacometti's stick-sculptures, Matisse's chapel at Vence, Jackson Pollock's dribble-pictures and Juan O'Gorman's outdoor mosaics at the University of Mexico. Instead of painting single pictures, Kiesler has painted fragments of pictures, often irregularly shaped, designed to be hung in clusters according to definite geometrical schemes...