Giorgio de Chirico developed Metaphysical painting in the years before World War I, filling deserted plazas with arcades, statues, long shadows, mannequins and inexplicable objects. These images profoundly influenced the Surrealists even as de Chirico later rejected much of modernism and returned to historical styles.
Painting; drawing; sculpture; writing
Major Works
- 1910The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon
- 1912–13The Nostalgia of the Infinite
- 1913Ariadne
- 1914The Song of Love
- 1914The Child’s Brain
- 1914The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
- 1914Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)
- 1917The Great Metaphysician
- 1917Hector and Andromache
- 1918The Disquieting Muses
Interviews & Writing
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