Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico 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
De Chirico photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936
The Song of Love, 1914, oil on canvas, 73 × 59.1 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Le mauvais génie d'un roi (The Evil Genius of a King), 1914–15, oil on canvas, 61 × 50.2 cm, Museum of Modern Art
The Seer, 1914–15, oil on canvas, 89.6 × 70.1 cm, Museum of Modern Art
Metaphysical painting or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works
Giorgio de Chirico
…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…
The Disquieting Muses by Giorgio de Chirico, 1947
Carlo Carrà, 1918, L'Ovale delle Apparizioni (The Oval of Apparition), oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Arnaldo dell'Ira, Piazza d'Italia, 1934