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	Alberto Giacometti
		"Alberto Giacometti is, both because of the nature of his work and because of his close friendship with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, the artist most closely identified with the Existentialist movement.
		Alberto was the eldest of four children and was always especially close to the brother nearest to him in age, Diego.
		Giacometti moved in a different direction: he gradually separated himself from the Surrealists and returned (a great heresy) to working from the model - he began with a series of portrait busts of Diego.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/G/giacometti.html (1541 words)

	Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
		In other words, assigning Alberto Giacometti's art to the banner of "existentialism" is a legitimate device; the statement that it lends form to a type of existential symbolism of fate, as Werner Hofmann has suggested, may indeed be something to which at a very general level that oeuvre can lay claim.
		Giacometti's art evidently has no cultic purpose; there is a secret affinity only from the formal perspective: the religious substance of the "model" is secularized to engender a symbolism that is convincing as artistic and aesthetic creation.
		Giacometti's spatial configurations with these group-like aggregations of figures enrich 20th-century European sculpture to include a fundamentally new form of statement; on the other hand, they radicalize a problem of representation, for which there are parallels in the European sculptural endeavor.
	www.rodin-web.org /approach_art/giacometti.htm (4132 words)

	Alberto Giacometti - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Giacometti's thin figures: dead men walking; in which the author advances a psychoanalytic interpretation of the artist's gaunt postwar figures, postulating (among other factors) the lifelong impact of a series of family losses and the shattering revelations of the Holocaust.(Alberto Giacometti)
		Alberto Giacometti and the endless search: a recent retrospective in Zurich and New York emphasized the dual nature of Giacometti's career: an early, swift assimilation of a range of experimental styles, followed by an obsessive, decades-long engagement with the human figure--a phase that, in the author's view, "occupies one continuous moment in time.".
		Facets of artifice: rhythms in the theater of Jean Genet, and the painting, drawing, and sculpture of Alberto Giacometti.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-GiacomettiAlberto.html (457 words)

	Acquavella: Alberto Giacometti
		Giacometti came to grips with his mythic component and bent himself to its dominion with unflinching unsparing fortitude.
		Alberto readily accepted, and the very readiness of his acceptance suggests that it cannot have been without a concomitant sense of adventure, even of risk and danger.
		Giacometti's symbolic enactment of the experiences of the tragic Theban king is certainly, to say the least, uncanny.
	www.acquavellagalleries.com /main/selectedcatalogue.cfm?catalog_id=31&lightup=3 (1681 words)

	Alberto Giacometti Online
		Alberto Giacometti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		Alberto Giacometti copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
		All images and text on this Alberto Giacometti page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/giacometti_alberto.html (0 words)

	Alberto Giacometti 2: The 1951 Masterpieces
		Entering Giacometti's studio [in the spring of 1951], which was filled with his finest sculptures, I found the artist peering at some sheets crammed with violent fl slashes.
		Giacometti had focused all his efforts on the severe stark architecture of his heart." In these works, Lust concludes, he gives us "the fl ecstasy of an imagination that is its own prison" (75).
		Giacometti went on to produce an enormous number of other lithographs, possibly technically more successful, but never showing with more clarity the value of graphics as a means of reflection on his own activity, and therefore on his own existence" (11).
	spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Giacometti2.html (1028 words)

	Alberto Giacometti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alberto Giacometti has been characterized as a man of demanding artistic ethic whose love for humanity and discovery permeated his lifestyle as well as his artistic works.
		The sculptor, painter, and draftsman was born in Stampa on the Italian-Swiss border.
		Giacometti wanted to create not only the physical likeness of a man or a woman within his works, he sought to convey the essence of the individual as he or she appeared before the artist.
	arts-sciences.cua.edu /art/nmh/332/njc/alberto.htm (344 words)

	Art/Museums: Alberto Giacometti at the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Museum of Modern Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Historically, the Giacometti Surrealist sculptures are more important than his mature work and aesthetically his paintings hold up much better than his mature sculptures and their sketchy nature and swirling delicate lines put to Cy Twombly to shame and are very strong works, particularly the streetscapes.
		Just as Giacometti was addressing the polarity of geometric forms and organic vitality, he was also deliberating on another problem: how to isolate and clarify individual elements so that each could become a succinct sign, while at the same time making each dynamically indispensable to the configuration as a whole.
		Like many artists of his generation, Giacometti was fascinated with Tribal and Oceanic sculpture and many of his early pieces reflect his "search both for hieratic design forms free of individual whimsy and for a language of signs for elemental human situations," Mr.
	www.thecityreview.com /giacom.html (2852 words)

	Alberto Giacometti at AllExperts
		Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.
		Alberto Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland.
		Giacometti was a key player in the Existentialist movement, but his work resists easy categorization.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/alberto_giacometti.htm (1087 words)

	Alberto Giacometti
		Surrealist painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti is considered the voice of Existentialism in the art community.
		While Giacometti’s sculptures are featured in museums around the world, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it is his Surrealist paintings and sketches that he is lesser known for.
		Giacometti made a return to printing and sketching in the late 1950s, and his work even appeared in magazines, such as “The Tree” which appeared in Verve.
	www.artexpertswebsite.com /pages/artists/giacometti.html (776 words)

	Alberto Giacometti
		Rapidly Alberto insists on the argument with a human head, which he studies as leftovers of the existence and looks for at which he the signs of life, which had lent once by breath and view energy and tension to the head.
		In accordance with Pietro Bellasi comes with Albertos of ripe art a prae formal conception register of the subject to the expression, which is coined/shaped by the mountain world, in particular the granite.
		The architect Bruno, the youngest Giacomettis, which itself not when artist sees and never looked for the footlights, built into the 1950er years Swiss pavilion for the Biennale of Venice, which is characterised by a clear line giving and a bright area.
	www.california-pawnshop.com /overture/giacometti.htm (1104 words)

	Alberto Giacometti - MalibuMountainWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.
		The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné Giacometti - The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970) comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print.
		Giacometti was a key player in the Existentialism movement, but his work resists easy categorization.
	www.malibumountaingallery.com /wiki/index.php?title=Alberto_Giacometti&printable=yes (933 words)

	Giacometti Alberto: Biography
		Alberto Giacometti was born on 10th October 1901 in Borgonovo in Val Bregaglia to Giovanni, a neo-impressionist painter, and Annetta Stampa.
		Alberto shared a sympathy for the surrealist movement with the Swiss artists he met in Paris and in 1927 began to display his first surrealist sculptures at the Salon des Tuileries.
		But Giacometti felt the need to return to the idea of "absolute resemblance" and after his father's death in 1933 shut himself off in period of a renewed apprenticeship.
	www.italica.rai.it /eng/principal/topics/bio/giacometti1.htm (998 words)

	Alberto Giacometti Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The son of a painter, Alberto Giacometti was born in Stampa on Oct. 10, 1901.
		Giacometti occasionally returned to figural themes in the 1930s and early 1940s, as in Nude, Femme qui marche (1933-1934), the first of the elongated torsos, and Woman with Chariot I (1942-1943).
		Giacometti's work after 1945 was almost exclusively figural, ranging from numerous portraits of his brother and his wife to sculptures of the anonymous and universal man, pointing, standing, or walking.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alberto-giacometti (470 words)

	Alberto Giacometti (2001) - PopMatters Film Review
		Giacometti located his creative epiphany in 1945 when he emerged from a Montparnasse cinema and saw the world as if for the first time, unclouded by the veil of the real.
		Giacometti himself said, "The first time that I saw the head I was looking at become fixed, immobilized definitively in a moment in time, I shook with terror as never before in my life and a cold sweat ran down my back.
		Unusually, van Zele begins with Giacometti's drawings and paintings, using precisely shot (and exquisitely color-controlled) close-ups to reveal the intensity of Giacometti's assault on the head, especially at the point where the eye socket and the nose meet.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/a/alberto-giacometti.shtml (1509 words)

	Acquavella: Alberto Giacometti's Biography
		Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in Stampa, a small town in Italian-speaking Switzerland.
		Giacometti enrolled in art school in Geneva in 1920, then made his way to Paris in 1922, setting up a studio with Diego.
		Back in his Parisian studio after the war, Giacometti began making the sculptures of slender proportions with highly agitated surfaces with which he is most closely identified.
	www.acquavellagalleries.com /main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=76 (238 words)

	Alberto Giacometti at SpaightwoodGalleries.com
		In the 1950s Giacometti turned with renewed interest to painting and printmaking, and is also consider an artist of great stature in these areas as well as sculpture.
		Giacometti's brother and assistant Diego was also a sculptor, but this is less a portrait that a statement about anxiety and the human condition Image size: 380x280mm.
		Herbert Lust suggests that in his late lithographs, Giacometti acieves "the calm of composition....It is an art of logic, majesty, and pruning." One of Giacometti's greatest portraits.
	spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Giacometti.html (625 words)

	NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
		Giacometti would have been 100 this year -- and in an appropriate gesture by the first museum to ever buy his work, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is holding a commemorative exhibition with works from Giacometti's long career.
		Giacometti himself often said they were his homage to the ancient Greek and Egyptian art he saw and sketched at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
		Giacometti did not intend to become a sculptor when he began his art career in Paris.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2001/dec/giacometti/011217.giacometti.html (518 words)

	Alberto Giacometti at Art Gallery of New South Wales \| Art Knowledge News
		In the early 1920s Giacometti was immediately stimulated by the artistic atmosphere of the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, the centre of the art world.
		Giacometti remained in Paris for the rest of his life with the exception of a brief interlude in Geneva during the war and regular visits to Stampa, his birthplace in the Swiss Alps.
		Giacometti became a legend in his own time and in 1962 was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale.
	www.artknowledgenews.com /Alberto_Giacometti-exhibit.html (928 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Alberto Giacometti / DVD-Video
		Alberto Giacometti was one of the 20th Century's greatest artists.
		Giacometti's imagery and technique - including his approach to the human body and his miniature sculptures - have greatly influenced modern art.
		Alberto Giacometti was one of the art world's guiding lights.
	www.dvdempire.com /exec/v4_item.asp?partner_id=10007441&item_id=43883 (206 words)

	Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Alberto Giacometti, a book featuring a small selection of the numerous photographs he had taken of Giacometti and the artist’s work over a period of more than 20 years.
		Alberto Giacometti includes 13 drawings, ranging from precise and light-filled interiors to the haunting stare of a masterful late drawing of his brother and frequent model, Diego.
		Meeting Frank Lloyd Wright, Alberto Giacometti and later Joan Miro formed strong influences for him in his use of drawing in space and light in...
	wwar.com /masters/g/giacometti-alberto.html (1549 words)

	Alberto Giacometti
		Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was born at Stampa, Switzerland in the Bregaglia valley, son of the Swiss Impressionist painter, Giovannia Giacometti.
		Most of Giacometti's lithographs are close to his paintings and drawings in theme and conception.
		This Giacometti color lithograph is in a 41 1/4" x 32 7/8" sloping contemporary frame with a raised lip.
	www.annalies.com /New_Works/Alberto_Giacometti/alberto_giacometti.html (268 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alberto Giacometti: Books: Christian Klemm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alberto Giacometti, the elegant catalog for a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, seeks to counter overly literary or psychological interpretations of an artist who has long been viewed as a poster boy for existentialism.
		One of the most universally admired artists of the 20th century, the Swiss-born sculptor/painter Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) is best known for a series of bronzes depicting ghostly, attenuated figures made during a burst of intense creative activity inspired partly by the cataclysmic events of World War II.
		Also timed to coincide with the exhibition is the publication of an elegantly packaged, slipcased set of two thin monographs profiling Alberto and his lesser-known sibling, Diego (1902-85), a designer of furniture and objets d'art and the metal smith who cast many of his brother's major bronzes.
	www.amazon.ca /Alberto-Giacometti-Christian-Klemm/dp/0870703390 (758 words)

	Alberto Giacometti (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alberto Giacometti was one of the most important artist of the
		The rest of her head meant no more to me than the skull of a dead man. One does want to sculpt a living person, but what makes him alive is without doubt his gaze...
		A face, he told us, is an indivisible whole, a meaningful and expressive unity; but the inert material of the artist, whether marble, bronze, or clay, is, on the contrary, capable of infinite subdivision-- each little separate bit contradicts and destroys the over-all pattern by the fact of its isolation.
	www.higginsmaxwell.com /giacometti.htm (760 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: Alberto Giacometti at MOMA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Giacometti's concern for the physical anticipates his sudden break with Surrealism in the early 1930s.
		Giacometti has become a man with a famous style and famous friends.
		Alberto Giacometti ran at The Museum of Modern Art through January 8, 2002.
	www.haberarts.com /giacomet.htm (1645 words)

	Alberto Giacometti Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) is recognized as one of the greatest European artists of the 20th cen...
		Traces of a Friendship: Photographs of Alberto Giacometti by Ernst Scheidegger
		Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966: Life and work of the swiss artist.
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/g/giacometti-alberto.html (378 words)

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