Festive Friday Alberto Giacometti

1901-1966Swiss sculptor and painter

All About Alberto Giacometti

• Birthday: October 10th 1901

• He grew up happily in Stampa

• His father and godfather were both painters

• Very interested in art from a young age

• He took many art classes as a young adult and traveled to Florence and Rome for some of them

• He abandoned any resemblance to reality in the period of 1925-29

"Alberto Giacometti. Encounters." Bucerius Kunst Forum:. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

L'Homme qui marche I, 1961

• L'Homme qui marche I is what any bronze sculptures created by Alberto Giacometti in 1961 are named

• He liked to create attenuated (thin)

solitary figures influenced by African art.

"Media Information." L'Homme Qui Marche II (Walking Man II). N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Spoon Woman, 1926-27

• Another abstract bronze sculpture Alberto Giacometti made in 1926-27

• It is one of the largest (57 ½ x 20 ½ x 10in) of his early sculptures

• The piece is designed to have a noticeable head, chest, torso, and feet as well as the aspects of a specific type of spoon.

"About This Artwork." Spoon Woman. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Woman with her Throat Cut, 1932

• Alberto Giacometti created this very interesting piece in 1932 again in Bronze

• The distortion of the woman creates a brutal and vicious image creating an insect-like form

• Again a more rigid spoon like shape is shown creating a ribcage sitting under her torso

• He attempts to create a sad, violent image frozen in peril

"Alberto Giacometti. Woman with Her Throat Cut. 1932 (cast 1949)." MoMA.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Alberto Giacometti’s Art• His unique style in sculptures

was accomplished by dripping plaster into molds making it very eye catching. He does not use many colors in his sculptures, so many of his bronze pieces have a very distinct texture including a very rust like one. This really is one of the most interesting things he does with his work.

Hang-dog, 1951"Alberto Giacometti - Dog 1951." Flickr. Yahoo!, n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Nose, 1949"Guggenheim." Collection Online. N.p., n.d.

Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Alberto Giacometti’s Art

• Alberto Giacometti has created many visual, 3 dimensional abstract pieces and he does them all to his own rules. Creating things people would not want to normally incorporate into art, or even see as art. He loved to look at African and Oceanic art then turn it into something meaningful to make the viewer see something he wanted thought about. He even created many things with no other purpose but to be entertaining.

Head of a man on a Rod, 1947"Scala Archives -." Scala Archives -. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Three Men Walking I, 1948-49

"Scala Archives -." Scala Archives -. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2014.

Bibliography:• "Alberto Giacometti." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,

2014. Web. 15 Oct. 2014. < http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/36712>.

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