Alberto Giacometti

His purpose was to express the “totality of life” and “find the real through external experiences”. He was celebrated for his elongated figures that followed his break from the surrealists. But, who was Alberto Giacometti? Alberto Giacometti was born in 1901 in the Italian speaking town Borgonova, Switzerland. Being the son of Giovanni Giacometti, an impressionist painter, he was encouraged in art at an early age. Giacometti had great confidence in his drafting ability at the …

…hues of black, brown and gray fill his drawing and paintings. It is striking that Giacometti was able to focus his attention so acutely on a few simple subjects in his effort to comprehend the world. Through this work he revealed such complexity and depth. Picasso considered Giacometti to be one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century. His artwork depicted the brutality of life, but showed a yearning for another kind of existence.