From 1935 to 1940 Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the model's gaze, followed by a unique artistic phase in which his statues became stretched out; their limbs elongated.
Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisioned through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation. A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, "he would make your head look like the blade of a knife." After his marriage his tiny sculptures became larger, but the larger they grew, the thinner they became. Giacometti said that the final result represented the sensation he felt when he looked at a naked woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti#Artistic_analysis
Narrow Bust, 1954
"I had just experienced in reverse what I had felt some months earlier in front of living beings. At that time I was beginning to see heads in the void, in the space which surrounds them. The first time that I saw the head I was looking at become fixed, immobilized definitively in a moment in time, I shook with terror as never before in my life and a cold sweat ran down my back. What I was looking at was no longer a living head, but an object like any other, no, different, not like any other object, but like something which was alive and dead at the same time."
--Giacometti.
http://www.electroasylum.com/giacometti/ag6.html
In 1928 Giacometti felt the need to open his forms, creating grill-like works and then a series of cages-skeletal structures that create three-dimensional environments, equivalent to Surrealist paintings. These culminated in the precise and fantastic "Palace at 4 A.M.", a construction of wood, wire, glass and string. In 1935, Giacometti returned to working from the live model, focusing on the tiny variations of each profile of the body. By sensitively exaggerating or reducing each detail the projections, however tiny, reach out and make the surrounding space visible and part of the work. These tactile elongated sculptures, for which Giacometti is best known, tend to disintegrate at close range. But viewed at some distance they express a universal sense of a living organism. Giacometti's isolated single figures or groups which pass each other without communication convey an anxious search arising from their loneliness, or stand straight and detached like trees in an Alpine forest.
http://www.3d-dali.com/Artist-Biographies/Alberto_Giacometti.html
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