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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts the work of the 20th century artists Alberto Giacometti and Wassily Kandinsky. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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reputation rests on the fact that he was working with figures at a time when everyone else was doing abstract art (Lucie-Smith). Giacometti seems to have had a problem drawing
things as they appear, at least with regard to size. Lucie-Smith writes that he drew pears from life, and made them extremely small, so much so that his father erased
them and told the boy to start over, this time life-size (Lucie-Smith). He tried, but when he finally finished, the pears were miniaturized again (Lucie-Smith). Giacometti studied in Paris and
during the early 1930s, worked in the Surrealist style (Lucie-Smith). Then, from 1935-1940, he worked from the model, a "sin" among Surrealists who excluded him from their group (Lucie-Smith).
During WWII Giacometti worked in Switzerland, where an important development took place in his work: he began to make figures (Lucie-Smith). Like his pears, they were tiny but when he
returned to Paris at the end of the war he began to make sculptures that had more normal dimensions, only they were now greatly elongated (Lucie-Smith). It is these statues,
which have a primitive quality about them, for which he is probably most famous. One of his works is "Three Men Walking," on display at the Dallas Museum of Art
(Giacometti). It is what the name implies: three of Giacomettis elongated figures, walking together. But the interesting thing is that although they are in the same physical space, they do
not appear to be walking together, or interacting with each other (Giacometti). They are taking long strides and their arms are swinging, but they appear to be facing in different
directions (Giacometti). Its as if they had met by accident, or perhaps had an argument and are now trying to get away from one another. The figures are metal and
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