Alberto Giacometti and the endless search: a recent retrospective in Zurich and New York emphasized the dual nature of Giacometti's career: an early, swift assimilation of a range of experimental styles, followed by an obsessive, decades-long engagement with the human figure--a phase that, in the author's view, "occupies one continuous moment in time.".

Art in America | May 1, 2002| | Copyright

The full-scale retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Museum of Modern Art was divided into two parts: before and after World War II. The first part began with work done when the artist was in his teens in Stampa, his hometown in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. It proceeded to include work made in Paris from 1922 to 1941. There was a progression from piece to piece (sculpture, paintings and drawings) that charted first the young artist mastering representation and later his experiments with Surrealism, from the `20s and `30s.

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