Some images of Giacometti's drawings that I like. This blog came into being so that I might talk briefly about my ideas and understanding of what made this artist's drawing methods so pertinent to my art style... "Why does his art resonate with me so much?" in other words.
Thus, I truly appreciate the way he presents angles and circular lines throughout his drawings. Some of these lines are almost "swinging" through the entirety of the picture plane. Whether these are foundational, or if he adds them later on, remains unclear to me. Still, these additions do wind up looking as if they are foundational, somehow. Most importantly, these sharply angular and swinging, curvilinear additions, can drive one's emotions beyond where your average drawing might.
The sorts of standardized, "cleaned-up profiles" and other pristine shapes one usually sees (or draws) in art (especially for this discussion, in still-lifes, human figures, and portraits)... well, it can be said that a standardized technique becomes more and more bereft of emotion, life, and singularity as the artist (through the image) seeks to please all that wider-conforming mindset of the "critical-thinking, collective consciousness" - not to be confused with its opposite, the Freudian "collective unconscious" which would own nigh infinite amounts more flexibility.
Somehow Giacometti's approach to life, his perspective being however skewed, allows him to supersede all those superficial impositions that we are all given, starting at the very earliest ages of our developmental processes.
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Perhaps, Giacometti's relatively "unstable approach" towards life grants humankind a glimpse, and a gift...
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... an uncomfortable look at the surreal nature of how "conformations" limit us. Perhaps by showing the negative extreme, he is even showing us a contrasting reality which might be possible, "if all our conformity were not robbing us of our singularity." This "alternate reality" is somehow, only implied in his art, and thus, it may need to be understood at a deeper, semi-conscious level than what our thinking minds can possibly comprehend. One might say that we see in Giacometti's work a warning-paradox and existential extent, something far better than what we have now... a world promising of creativity and freedom, even an approach, which could move us beyond the darker implications of the terribly immediate interpretations he offers the audience (validated in the lonely and wide-open atmospheres where his figures tirelessly work and exist).
However, maybe it is just my tendency to look for the good, beyond the bad, that makes me think that there was a greater message hidden beneath Giacometti's darkly moving images. Still... I will go as far as to say that I have a Soul that Knows more Truth than my Mind ever Will.
Peace.
