NOT ALWAYS TALL AND SKINNY
At the end of my first day to see the Expressionists, there was a « drink » break and then on to see the Alberto Giacometti « Drawings and Watercolours ». (1901-1966) I think we all have a tendency to see his work as « tall and skinny » and mainly sculptures or drawings in preparation for his sculptures. The dog 1951 I was very pleasantly surprised to see that he had completed many works before he started his sculptures. The exhibition was based on all the works from the early years in Stampa to his period in Paris which has long held a special meaning for the Giocometti family. It included copies of works by Dürer, Mantegna, Holbein and Hodler made by a precocious Giacometti between the ages of 12 and 15. They were followed in the 1920s by studies of Romanesque and Egyptian sculptures, Little man 1926 while in the 1930s he began to engage with the work of Matisse, Cézanne and Rodin, though producing creations that were very much his own. The selection also s