The farewell tourMark OstowView full imageAlberto Giacometti 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?
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