Diego 1953

Alberto Giacometti made this painting, Diego, in his own time, with oils probably, and maybe some charcoal or something. It kind of looks like he was trying to pin down a ghost, right? Or like he’s building a person out of thin air. You can see how Giacometti keeps going over the same lines, like he’s trying to catch something that keeps slipping away from him. He’s known for his sculptures, but I can imagine him doing this in painting too, trying to make something solid out of nothing. I wonder if it felt like hard work for him to keep at it or like he was just flowing with a feeling? I bet he learned a lot about seeing and drawing from his sculptures, too, and that it all fed back into paintings like this one. We all look to each other, painters do especially. And then something new comes along and we see things we couldn't see before.