Who was Alberto Giacometti?
Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti (1901, Switzerland - 1966, Chur) had a unique vision of the world. He mastered a style to portray the air of loneliness and despair after the war. As a result, he created elongated figures that were a reflection of the traumatic aftermath of World War II, the weightless and scarred bodies of the survivors he witnessed in postwar Paris.
He attained to express in his artworks - whether sculpture, painting, or drawing - the suffering of an era, conveying the truth that surrounded him.
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