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Guess Who (by artist's works!)
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i can see through the blue (Alberto Giacometti)
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That's a pretty good guess Connie!But alas wrong,
The artist we're looking for lived most of his life in Paris, but wasn't born in France.
The brushwork makes me think deKooning, ut he was Dutch-American.
Correct Tom!The above painting was made later in his live . His studio in Paris is now a (small) museum:
https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/
The actor Geoffrey Rush gives a pretty accurate performance as Giacometti in his final days in the movie: The Final Portrait:
https://youtu.be/sRsiW5c29Sk
Dirk wrote: "Correct Tom!The above painting was made later in his live . His studio in Paris is now a (small) museum:
https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/
" Those sharp black lines, like metal filings, were the key clue — a trademark of G’s work.
dress when you stand
in the doorway - the light
come indoors softly like
a cat between your legs
when you walk and
the dress flows
over the curved pebble
of your belly into
the blue pool my eye
is already there
waiting for the ripple