Artist field note

Alberto Giacometti

What remains of a person at a distance.

The Walking Man I by Alberto Giacometti
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The Walking Man I

1960

A thin figure strides forward. Almost everything has been stripped away except persistence.

The five in one idea

Giacometti turned distance, fragility and persistence into the substance of the human figure.