Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alberto Giacometti, 57, is a hungry sort of spaceman who eats away the forms he makes, leaving space supreme. "I see reality life size," he once remarked, "just as you do." But his portraits got smaller and smaller. He would carry them in his pockets, like peanuts, to the Paris cafes, and crush them with a squeeze. After World War II, Giacometti suddenly began producing tall, straw-thin stick men reminiscent of ancient Sardinian bronzes. His sculptures can be seen almost all the way around and dominate space instead of filling it. These new figures were universally acclaimed, but Giacometti...
...something to others," he says, "it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it."To do this, he has to stretch his own first. When he succeeds, an artist enriches that side of life that makes us different from animals. You don't know how it's done, yet it's not an accident...
...savage artist would recognize. The swelling curves of a woman also suggested the surge of a hillside, the texture of water-shaped stones. The figures swallowed the light here, emitted it there, and a viewer walked away feeling that he had seen stone or wood or bronze touched with life...
...Limbo. Since then, none of the superficial necessities or reasonable rewards of life have eluded Sculptor Moore. Always a good businessman, Moore is selling as fast as he cares to produce, at prices ranging from about $1,000 for foot-long figures to about $15,000 for each of five bronze casts being made of his UNESCO working model. He has a new car (a Rover) in the garage, a secretary to handle his correspondence, and a 13-year-old daughter, Mary, that he dotes...
This spring he built a second greenhouse to indulge his wife's horticultural hobby. He is content to live out his life in the nonbohemian tranquillity of his Hertfordshire home, with only an array inside of small Henry Moore statues and Irina Moore's fine collection of primitive sculpture to show that it is the place of an unconventional family. He also has the satisfaction of knowing that his own breakthrough has opened the way to public acceptance for a whole generation of radical young British sculptors, topped by such bright new talents as Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler...