Alberto Giacometti

Son of the impressionist painter Giovannia Giacometti. He settled in Paris in 1922, studying with Bourdelle and becoming associated first with the cubists and then the surrealists. In the 1930s and thereafter, he created highly original sculptures of elongated, emaciated human figures, usually in bronze. In the early 1940s he created works on a reduced scale. In his later years he again formed tall figures that are among his most impressive sculptures. In his mature work, he concentrated on three basic themes for his attenuated figures—the seated portrait, the walking man, and the standing female nude, the latter two often with shrunken head and enormous feet. Giacometti's imagery and his plastic technique have had an extensive influence on modern sculpture. Many of his drawings and oil paintings are also works of distinction.

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