Animation Project Post #3

After researching a number of different artists and movements and I began to notice I was been drawn towards a lot of portraiture and figurative studies. Eventually I came across some work by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). His style focuses mainly on surrealist sculpture but also painting and printmaking. He was born in Switzerland and is son to post-impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti.

I find his sculpture to be most intriguing.Tall, narrow figures with unusual perspectives. He grew disappointed of his sculptures of the human form in the late 1930's, eventually destroying most of his work. Re-approaching his work, he began to take into account how tiny the human figure is in his field of vision and working mostly from memory. His figures are recognised by there rough surface and also the elongated, stretched limbs, heads and torso.

'Walking Man' by Alberto Giacometti

Here is an interesting insight into Giocometti's style and how paints his figures.