Cézanne & Giacometti - Bezzola Tobia; Freudenberg Inken D.; Rütimann Donat; Baumann Felix; Tøjner Poul Erik
paths of doubt
KORTE INHOUD
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 Surrealistic, elongated human forms of the 1940s, 50s and 60s. 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. 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. Giacometti, conversely, found early success with the Surrealists but broke off from them in the late 40s when he began making more r...
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2008Uitgever: Hatje Cantz Verlag359 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 280x220x280ISBN-10: 3775720898ISBN-13: 9783775720892Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paul Cezanne (1839? 1906) for more than a century of "Artist of Artist, and an end to the risk of his work, inspiration is not in sight. Although more than 60 years between them to push the parallels between life and works by Cezanne, Alberto Giacometti (1901? 1966) is a natural. Both men began with a strong creative period, marked by sexuality and inner struggles, to a significant creative change, they turn to the problem of representation was realistic. Although Giacometti's work style does not appear to ...
