How can be an art piece recognized? by Barbora Misakova

How do you recognize an art piece? Is it rated by its secular value, is it judged by its unusual appearance or is it just valued by the name of artist who made it? Actually I don’t know and I really never care for it. When there is anything I could call an artwork, it must be able to catch me, catch my eyes and my mind, and it must force me to think or even at least stare at it! Combination of all these things makes from that little piece of whatever a masterpiece! Giacometti’s sculptures were some kind of masterpieces. Works of this Swiss sculptor (but also painter) resist easy categorization. They were put into formalism, expressionism, modernism and also exis! tentialism. As I never know lot about these art forms, I just confirmed myself in the view that the most important is to recognize it anytime and anywhere. That makes from a piece of wood, steel or canvas work of art. Giacometti’s sculptures were just like that. You know immediately they were made by his hands. His life-size, stick-think sculptures of human form were made from bronze. And they simply carry his handwriting. The initial simplicity is hiding something what will compels you to think about it or at least remember it. Maybe that was also the reason why the first of Giacometti’s statue of “Walking man” series was sold for 104.3 million dollars at a Sotheby’s auction in London. It was expected to go for up to 29 million dollars, but one anonymous telephone changed it. Sale opened at 12 million pounds started eight minutes lasting bidding between at least 10 purchasers. The anonymous telephone bidder paid almost four times that amount w! hat beat the previous record for a work at auction set by Pabl! o Picass o’s painting “Garcon a la Pipe”. As said Helena Newman from Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art department: “The price is a reflection of the extraordinary importance of this exceptionally rare work.”

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