Giacometti's Creative Crisis

thought, such as thoughts of h.Bergson , S.Freud, j-p.sarpre and j-p.sarpre is supported by a kind of philosophic thought, especially, the phenomenology in the modern philosophy has affected almost all the artist in a generation in Europe. Albertl Giacometti is one of them. When art becomes the symbol for diagramming the philosophy, the artist' feeling is subverted, it brings about the crisis of creationo Apparently, this kind of crisis is not a technical problem, the creation and its crisis of Albertl Giacometti was from the creative aim, that was the pursuit for the "vision" , as he said: "rendering my vision" , "trying to get the flying and short instantaneousness of human' visual experience". Such word about pure vision is so close to the phenomenology appeared in beginning of 20 century and made a great influence that time.Albertl Giacometti is an unique and creative artist, who pursued the subjective expression, his aim in his life was as he said "rendering my vision".That is to express the vision truth , a vision truth of phenomenology, gotten after abandoning all the existing idea and knowledge. His such pursuit ,as existentialist j-p.sarpre evaluated in a preface title of a painting album, about an exhibition of Albertl Giacometti held in Pierre Matisse gallery in New York in 1948, was "the Search for the Absolute". The search for the absolute is a endless and a painful process, so we see there was lots of crisis of creation in Albertl Giacometti's life, and we could find ,every time ,behind the crisis, there was the explanation of phenomenology. Every crisis meat a surmounting to him ,he never gave up his pursuit.Albertl Giacometti accomplished a sisyphus fairy in all his life, after the crisis , depression and even despair again and again, he surpassed himself, and developed in his art.This article is trying to discuss the phenomenology thought in Albertl Giacometti' creation, and its influence to his creation, especially the crisis for three times . His creative experience and attitude should give a good deal of enlightenment to the development of the now days' artist in Cina.