Cézanne & Giacometti: Paths of Doubt
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3775720898 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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His legendarily bad social skills led him from the artistic hub of 1870s Paris to the French countryside, where he lived as a recluse, only attracting attention for his work when he was in his late fifties. I don't see my sculpture, I see blackness." This unique volume sheds light on Giacometti's stylistic allusions to Cézanne and finds surprising corollaries between the two masters' lives and work.. Giacometti, conversely, found early success with the Surrealists but broke off from them in the late 40s when he began making more realistic black figurative sculptures. The subtitle of this volume, Paths of Doubt, refers in part to both artists' refusal of the movements by which they were embraced: in Cézanne's case, Impressionism, and in Giacometti's, Surrealism. Doubt also alludes to Cézanne's late success. Oh, I see a marvelous and brilliant painting, but I didn't do it, nobody did it. Though they were born 62 years and hundreds of miles apart, synchronicities between Paul Cézanne and Alberto Giacometti continue to arise. Called "father of us all" by Pablo Picasso, the French Post-Impressionist Cézanne is widely regarded as the artistic bridge between Impressionism and Modernism, and he was highly influential to Giacometti, the Swiss sculptor known for his Surreali
A beautiful book, a somewhat far-fetched demonstration but a good piece of artwriting Reich Claude The catalogue for an exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, this book is a wonderful trove of beautiful reproductions of famous works by both artists. The works have been put together in order to serve the demonstration according to which there would be a mutual influence (albeit improbable since Cézanne never lived to know Giacometti)in the art of both Cézanne and Giacometti. If the latter obviously owes a debt to the master from Aix (who in