Alberto Giacometti

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Descending from a Protestant family in Switzerland and Italian refugees native of Graubรผnden (1901), Alberto Giacometti attends schools of art in Geneva and Paris.

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Different cultural experiences in environments very different oriented his work that evolves first from the crushing Cubist toward surrealism and then the existentialist problem.
In the first part of his work … the line.

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…. and the conceptual essence of his figures ….

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… They are played with a work-only memory by artist who refuses to work with real models …

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Subsequently, his art is characterized by lumps of matter coagulated

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along lines of force ….

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… And these lines of force

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become more thread

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like in the series “l ‘homme qui marche” …………

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His human figures can remember the amazing modernity of certain Etruscan carvings, but the graininess of matter gives them a particular style and unmistakable …

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Giacometti died in Chur in 1966

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