Giacometti is often referred to as an ‘existentialist’ artist. His fragile walking and standing figures are regarded expressions of existential fear and fundamental loneliness of man. But he does not feel affinity for this philosophy. His driving force is searching and exploring how human beings relate to space. It is that relationship that he wants to depict the way we see and experience it. Or, as his friend Jean Paul Sartre writes: ‘Giacometti shows man not just at a distance, but at a distance from man. He creates man as you see him, as man is there for one another.’
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