Day 4596: Artist, Alberto Giacometti, Golden Girls & The Flying X Saloon.

"Boy of War": junk collage, photo & digital.

   

  

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Click:  Hiroshima, Hawaiian Electric.

 

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1948

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.

Monumental Head

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."

Cat, 1954 , Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease  at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents.

With no children, his wife, Annette Giacometti became the sole holder of his property rights.^[15] She worked to collect a full listing of authenticated works by her late husband, gathering documentation on the location and manufacture of his works and working to fight the rising number of counterfeited works. When she died in 1993, the Fondation Giacometti was set up by the French state. 

Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease (pericarditis) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents.

With no children, Annette Giacometti became the sole holder of his property rights.^[15] She worked to collect a full listing of authenticated works by her late husband, gathering documentation on the location and manufacture of his works and working to fight the rising number of counterfeited works. When she died in 1993, the Fondation Giacometti was set up by the French state.

I talked to WonderWoman this morning, we talk almost daily.

Superman is on a business trip, and WW and three great friends, Tina, Heather & Kerry are in Lake Havasu, for a four day girls trip. They call themselves the Golden Girls, but I don't think they are old enough to claim that name? If I had a group it might be the Rusty Girls?

They went to the Flying X Saloon and paid $6 a person to take line dancing lessons 4-6pm. 

Kerry and Tina

WW & Heather

photo bomb by Zoey got lots of laughs.

WW said : "So fun."

Demura Sensei's Costa Mesa Dojo 

1983

  

 

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