I want to resist any temptation to interpret these pictures, to reveal ‘meanings,’ instead of acknowledging the ways they underscore the strangeness of the workaday world.

Giorgio di Chirico. The Enigma of a Day. 1914.

Hector and Andromache, 1912, Giorgio de Chirico Medium: oil, panel

Modern & Contemporary Art

Metaphysical painting, style of painting that flourished mainly between 1911 and 1920 in the works of the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. These painters used representational but incongruous imagery to produce disquieting effects on the viewer. Their work strongly influenced the

The Nostalgia of the Poet, 1914, Giorgio de Chirico Size: 40.7x89.7 cm Medium: charcoal, oil, canvas

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Episode #10 of the course "Great surrealist painters of all time" Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, born in 1888, did not consider himself a Surrealist, but his dark and “metaphysical” style certainly inspired a generation of artists. He was interested in the nature of reality, and he read deeply into philosophy and psychology to interpret

I want to resist any temptation to interpret these pictures, to reveal ‘meanings,’ instead of acknowledging the ways they underscore the strangeness of the workaday world.

“Hector and Andromache, 1912 #metaphysicalart #chirico”

Still life, Giorgio de Chirico Medium: oil,canvas https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/still-life-1929