Alberto Giacometti's Femme De Venise III

Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s works of art effectively instill a sense of emptiness and instability within his viewers. Each piece captures the loneliness and isolation of the human experience. Although Giacometti’s paintings build upon these themes, his sculptures take his ideas a step further by interacting with the space around them and, by extension, the viewer. His 1956 bronze piece titled Femme de Venise III echoes the artist’s desire to manipulate external space to resemble more realistically the internal space of his female subject.
Giacometti’s arguably most recognizable sculptural works consist of heavily distorted bronze figures existing in an unnatural space while his paintings flatten these planes and focus on harsh linear techniques that construct often barely recognizable subjects. One of …show more content…
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