biography
| name: |
Giacometti, Alberto
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pronunciation:
[jiakometee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1901–66)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and painter, born in Stampa, E Switzerland. He studied at Geneva and worked mainly in Paris, at first under Bourdelle. He joined the Surrealists in 1930, producing many abstract constructions of a symbolic kind, arriving finally at the characteristic ‘thin man’ bronzes, long spidery statuettes, such as ‘Pointing Man’ (1947, Tate, London). |
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