Word: giacometti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circles mark campsites or rock holes, straight lines the routes between them, wavy ones rain or watercourses, and so on. Even the toa carvings collected from tribesmen around Lake Eyre in the early 1900s, which seem to radiate a degree of sculptural fantasy that predicts the surrealist work of Giacometti and the totems of David Smith, are maps of landscape and the ancestors it contains...
...ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 1901-1966, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. The paintings, drawings and familiar elongated sculptures of the great Swiss-born modernist. Through...
...ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 1901-1966, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. The paintings, drawings and familiar elongated sculptures of the great Swiss-born modernist. Through...
...this point it is clear how much, subliminally or not, Giacometti has meant to Rothenberg. This probing for form through a web, a mist of approximate lines, so that the never-quite-final shape becomes a palimpsest of recorded attempts to fix it, echoes Giacometti's own anxiety before his subjects. How can the artist be sure, and make you sure, what is there? For Rothenberg the problem becomes worse, because she chooses subjects in movement, the opposite of Giacometti's hieratic stillness. It does not always come off, but when it does you are made sharply aware...
...done marvels with adjustment of scale to image. Each space suits its contents, whether one is looking at Daumier's 36 clay caricature heads of the Celebrites du Juste- Milieu, no bigger than grenades and as lethal, whose passionate violations of the human face would so deeply affect Giacometti a century later, or at the large, suave, marmoreal forms of Ingres and early neoclassical Jean-Leon Gerome...