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 Monumental Head by Alberto Giacometti - Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Posted by:  Hikenutty
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This abstracted head sculpture was created by Alberto Giacometti, a leader in the Surrealism Movement. It can be found in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
Waymark Code: WM4A7G
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2008
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This abstracted head sculpture was created by Alberto Giacometti, a leader in the Surrealism Movement. It can be found in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
The following info on Giacometti is from Wikipedia:
Alberto Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, now part of the Swiss municipality of Stampa, near the Italian border. His father, Giovanni Giacometti, was a painter. Alberto attended the School of Fine Arts in Geneva.
In 1922 he moved to Paris to study under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, an associate of Auguste Rodin. It was there that Giacometti experimented with cubism and surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading surrealist sculptors. Among his associates were Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso and Balthus.
Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist, others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls 'blocs of sensation' (as in Deleuze's analysis of Francis Bacon). Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group, while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation, the end products were an expression of his emotional response to the subject. He attempted to create renditions of his models the way he saw them, and the way he thought they ought to be seen. He once said that he was sculpting not the human figure but "the shadow that is cast."
Title: Monumental Head
Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Media (materials) used: Bronze
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Date of creation or placement: Sculpted 1960, Purchased by Hirshhorn 1961, gifted to museum 1966
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