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To make this collection, I first sorted through the Tate Museum's collection of artwork from the 1940s using OpenRefine to find interesting topics to examine. I then uploaded images of Alberto Giacometti's works onto Omeka, and wrote descriptions…

This is a painting of Giacometti's Parisian studio, with many of his sculptures on the floor. Giacometti is most known for his sculptures, but painting was also an important part of his career. His style of painting, composed of thin lines, is…

Man Pointing is Giacometti's most famous work, and the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction. The work was made in one night for an exhibition in New York, and was painted by hand by Giacometti. It is remarkable for it's size, at a towering 5…

A painting of his brother, this captures the intense thought contained in Giacometti's paintings. He felt that the process of painting a model was alienating, saying that "When he poses for me I don’t recognise him". This is reflected in the simple…

A sculpture of a figure, this work is elongated to the point of being essentially a straight line with a head, adding to the impression of height. This is typical of Giacometti's sculptural style, but it's simplicity only makes it more striking.…

A painting, "Two Figures" depicts a figure standing with arms outstretched, and a second, seemingly smaller figure, so vague that it's unclear what it's doing. It's often thought to be a sketch for Giacometti's most famous sculpture, Pointing Man,…