Human Form

Alberto Giacometti is best known for his human form sculptures. These sculptures were formed in plaster and clay. The style in which Giacometti created these sculptures is known as a style he developed. Artists before him had not created forms resembling this prior.

Giacometti's forms are tall and slender. This methods was his way of dissecting human forms and utilizing negative space to elongate the figures. Cubism inspired him to develop this method along with Surrealism.

It took Giacometti a long time to develop and work through what his human form would look like. These forms are considered to "evoke emotional intensity of the void" mediating between nothingness and being. His struggle was to create these forms as minimal as possible yet still reflect human form.