Artist
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian, 1888–1978
Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian Futurism artist. 11 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Giorgio de Chirico was born in Volos.
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( KIRR-ik-oh; Italian:; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective.
His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace. After 1919, de Chirico became a critic of modern art, studied traditional painting techniques, and later worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.
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