Giacometti, Alberto (1901-1966)
Alberto Giacometti was born in Stampa, Switzerland. He started drawing at the age of nine, painting at twelve and created his first sculpture at fourteen. His father was an Impressionist painter and Giacometti's first teacher. In 1919, Giacometti began studying sculpture in Geneva and then studied for three years with Bourdelle in Paris. When he began to work on his own, Giacometti found that he had difficulty working from the figure, which seemed to disintegrate as he worked. He tried working instead from his imagination and continued to do so for ten years. At this time Cubism, African art and the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz influenced his work. His style gradually changed to become first thin and tablet-like and then solid and compact, in structures like The Couple and Spoon Woman. His technique involved starting with a wire skeleton. To this he added clay to build up his figures as opposed to revealing them by chipping away at a large block of stone. The clay models were then cast in bronze. In 1928, Giacometti created grill-like works and then a series of cages - skeletal structures that create a three-dimensional environment and influenced by Surrealism. In 1935, Giacometti returned to working from the live model, focusing on the tiny variations of each profile of the body. These tactile, elongated sculptures, for which Giacometti is best known, depict isolated and lonely figures unable to communicate with one another. In addition to sculpture, Giacometti was a prolific painter. |
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