Giorgio de Chirico
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Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was an Italian painter born in Volos, Greece founded the scuola metafisica art movement. After studying art in Athens and Florence, de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer and studied the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger. After 1910 he lived in Italy.
De Chirico is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919, his Metaphysical period, which are memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images. At the start of this period, his subjects were still cityscapes inspired by the bright daylight of Mediterranean cities, but gradually he turned his attention to studies of cluttered storerooms, sometimes inhabited by mannequins.
He won praise for his work almost immediately from the writer Guillaume Apollinaire, who helped to introduce his work to the later Surrealists. Yves Tanguy wrote how one day in 1922 he saw one of de Chirico's paintings in an art dealer's window, and was so impressed by it he resolved on the spot to become an artist -- although he had never even held a brush! Other artists who acknowledged de Chirico's influence include Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, and René Magritte. De Chirico strongly influenced the Surrealist movement.TheNostalgiaoftheInfinite.jpg
Later in his life De Chirico abandoned the metaphysical style and started painting more realistically, but with much less success.
De Chirico also published a novel in 1925: Hebdomeros, the Metaphysician. His later paintings never received the same critical praise as did those from his metaphysical period.
Selected list of works
- Flight of the Centauri 1909
- The Nostalgia of the Infinite 1912-13? dated 1911
- The Red Tower 1913
- Ariadne 1913
- The Anxious Journey 1913
- Melancholy of a Beautiful Day 1913
- Le Rêve Transformé 1913
- The Nostalgia of the Poet 1914
- L'Énigme de la fatalité 1914
- Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure) 1914
- Love Song 1914
- The Enigma of a Day 1914
- The Philosopher’s Conquest 1914
- The Anguish of Departure 1914
- Melancholy and Mystery of a Street 1914
- The Evil Genius of a King 1914-15
- Piazza d’Italia 1915
- The Double Dream of Spring 1915
- The Duo 1915
- Andromache 1916
- Metaphysical Interior with Large Factory 1916
- The Melancholy of Departure 1916
- Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits 1916
- The Disquieting Muses 1916
- The Faithful Servitor 1916 or 17
- Metaphysical Interior 1917
- Great Metaphysical Interior 1917
- Still Life with Salami 1919
- The Sacred Fish 1919
- Self-portrait 1920
- Florentine Still Life ca. 1923
- Au Board de la Mer 1925
- La Commedia e la Tragedia (Commedia Romana) 1926
- The Painter’s Family 1926
- Cupboards in a Valley 1926
- Mobili Nella Valle 1927
- The Archaeologists 1927
- The Archaeologists IV (from the series Metamorphosis) 1929
- The return of the Prodigal son I (from the series Metamorphosis) 1929
- Bagnante (Ritratto di Raissa) 1929
- Self-portrait 1935-37
- Ettore e Andromaca 1966
- Sole sul Cavalletto 1972
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