Word: alberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Alberto Giacometti died at 65 in his native Switzerland eight years ago, he was already a figure of legend. His seamed casque of a head (like that of a Renaissance condottiere) and his cramped, dust-floured studio in Paris, had become almost as famous as Picasso's simian mask and opulent villas. He was, it seemed, the existentialist answer to Mediterranean man. And as such he appeared to be one of the very few sculptors who, in the 20th century, had discovered a fresh convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay...
...work of Giacometti's family circle of gifted painters, who surrounded him with protective confidence. They are his godfather Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), his cousin Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947), and his father Giovanni (1868-1933), a forceful colorist who in 1915 recorded the 14-year-old Alberto's intense features in a fluent idiom derived from Cezanne. There can be few other artists who had the luck to grow up in such a garden of visual talent...
...these two shows constitute an instructive journey through the achievements of a guild-like family whose work traversed nearly all the reigning styles of European art, from symbolism through post-impressionism to cubism, and thence, in Alberto Giacometti's work, through surrealism and out the other side. It is a salutary lesson in what commitment to art as a discipline can mean and how it differs from the facile professionalism with which, all too often, we are stuck today...
...constructed story by Borges to the breaking point. These films, in varying degree, destroyed what was good in their sources without adding anything else. Partner, in particular, which obliterates its source with such effectiveness--and to such little artistic effect--contrasts strongly with The Conformist, for which Bertolucci reordered Alberto Moravia's novel in order to rebuild it on the strongest of visual terms. In The Conformist, Bertolucci presents the same anti-bourgeois, anti-fascist feelings that make up the moral tone of Moravia's novel; in Partner, there is no moral stance aside from the platitudes uttered...
...ALBERTO M. SORIANO...