Alberto giacometti brief biography example

Alberto Giacometti (ital. Alberto Giacometti, October 10, 1901, Borgonovo, Stampa, Switzerland - January 11, 1966, Chur, Switzerland) - Swiss sculptor and artist, who spent most of his life in France, in Paris.

At various times he belonged to the group of Parisian surrealist painters and went through a passion for cubistic forms and ideas, but Giacometti’s fame brings his own unique style of sculpture, which would later be called existential.

Alberto giacometti brief biography example

The works of Giacometti in recent years, occupy the top positions in the lists of the most expensive sculptures in the world.

Features of the work of the sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti: his main works will be recognized by several key signs.

These are tall, thin, almost disappearing figures: walking men and women standing. They resemble skeletons of burnt wooden cult statues, trembling reflections in the water, or distant silhouettes dissolving in the fog. Even in the figures cast in bronze, the traces of the sculptor's fingers are alw