#man pointing

Alberto Giacometti L’Homme au doigt (Man Pointing), 1947

Instead of doing homework I’ve wasted an hour photoshopping this AcDec sculpture into the Hamilton logo and singing Waving Through a Window

Man Pointing by Alberto Giacometti 1947

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Man Pointing- Alberto Giacometti

Year: 1947

In the years leading up to World War II, Giacometti abandoned his earlier Surrealism. Dissatisfied with the resource of imagination, he returned to the resource of vision, focusing on the human figure and working from live models. Under his eyes, however, these models seem virtually to have dissolved. Working in clay (the preparation to casting in bronze), Giacometti scraped away the body's musculature, so that the flesh seems eaten off by a terrible surrounding emptiness, or to register the air around it as a hostile pressure. Recording the touch of the artist's fingers, the surface of Man Pointing is as rough as if charred or corroded. At the same time, the figure dominates its space, even from a distance.