The farewell tour

Mark Ostow

Mark Ostow

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Alberto Giacometti
Buste de Diego
1958
Bronze
Lent by Bruce W. Benenson

With Giacometti—in his paintings especially, but even his bronzes—the figures never quite settle down. It’s the same way with impressionism. When people paint impressionistically, they’re showing that in life everything’s changing, all the time. So, rather than make everything precise, Giacometti and certain other artists started to ask, How do you fix an image of a person? Should it be completely refined, or should it vibrate in some way?