prostitute

reality

seeing

style

waste

occupation / innovator as

sculptor

intellectual movement

Surrealism

designer

nationality

French

painter

Swiss

cause of death

natural causes

innovator in the field of

art of sculpture

is the most honest of girls, for they present the bill right away while the others hang on and never let you go.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let you go.

 can never be shared. The content of any work is not the nature of that which is portrayed but the incomplete history of one staring at it.

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality. . . could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it. John Berger

is a process of continual flux. The closer one gets to a thing to see it 'better', the more differently one necessarily sees it.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see. (Alberto Giacometti)

is a vision of lived perception shattered into a sort of cubism which have no other object or subject han themselves which are fixed in time and space.

He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, composes the percepts of that life, of that moment, shattering lived perceptions into a sort of cubism, a sort of simultaneism, of harsh or crepuscular light, of purple or blue, which have no other object or subject than themselves. 'What we call styles,' said Giacometti, 'are those visions fixed in time and space.' (Deleuze and Guattari 'precepts, affects, concepts : 469)

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