Alberto giacometti

(#46) Alberto Giacometti

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Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur). Date: 1949. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 13 x 12 3/4 in. (76.5 x 33 x 32.4 cm). Clas...

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Although Alberto Giacometti is most often remembered for his towering statues and landscape paintings, the artist began every new project with a sketch. Preferring either a ballpoint pen or pencil, he referred to the act of drawing as the “basis” for all of his artworks. In Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure—the extensive retrospective which …

1. Alberto Giacometti was born in Switzerland to an artistic family in 1901. His father was post-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti; his father’s second cousin was Symbolist painter Augusto Giacometti; and his godfather Fauvist Cuno Amiet. In addition to his three younger siblings, two of"u2026