This sculpture by Eric Gill is lushly rounded, smooth and heavy. It is stylised in such a way a to create a largely curvilinear piece with no jagged edges and much full plumpness. I like it because of the softened edges of the form and because of the highly designed almost iconographic appearance of the two figures. The sculpture as a representation is not realistic or naturalistic and i find the cleanliness of the line in this case very appealing. The similarity of the two figures and their echoing of one another heightens the feeling of gentleness in this piece.
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I don't particularly dislike this piece by Alberto Giacometti, it's just that I find the figures bloodless and full of pathos in comparison to the previous sculpture. Their ragged angular thinness, exaggerated by the elongation of their bodies and by their enormous heavy feet, make this figures seem sad to me. Not fleshy and smooth and full and round and warm, but boney and jagged and thin and cold. These figures are not slumbering in a companionable bliss but pacing restlessly, endlessly, dragging heavy feet through some seeming quagmire.
http://www.desordre.net/accessoires/peinture/giacometti.htm
http://www.desordre.net/accessoires/peinture/giacometti.htm
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