Giacometti was a key player in the surrealist art movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist, others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls 'blocs of sensation' (as in Deleuze's analysis of Francis Bacon). Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group, while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation, the end products were an expression of his emotional response to the subject. He attempted to create renditions of his models the way he saw them, and the way he thought they ought to be seen.
The technique he uses in his work and the way he draws is very simiar to my wire drawings and previous work. I am interested by the fact that he explores the idea of the impossibility of rendering or finding an equivalent for another person. The time Giacometti's work was produced was post war(both first and second). It's an age of anxiety- society is not inevitably going to become more civilised. Around this time women were seen as inferior to men yet he believed his work should show the true reflection of the person he is working with and the way they are ought to be seen, despite gender.
