Giacometti
Giacometti at the New Fogg
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
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Giacometti, Portrait of David Sylvester, 1960, detail, Fogg Museum
Giacometti made this portrait of the British art critic David Sylvester in 1960:
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I think a restful thing about Giacometti is the way different permutations of the same lines and shadings -- the same darkly scratched lines and the same shadings of gray, white, and black -- constitute both the figure and the ground.
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A person is a coalescence.
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And derives substantiality from the abstract.
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The longer you look, the more humane this seems.
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