Giorgio De Chirico
“The Enigma of a Day”
1914 - oil on canvas
Giorgio De Chirico –Born July 10, 1888 Volos, Greece
De Chirico perhaps was the most important representative of the Metaphysical Painting Style. His work uses exaggerated shadows, perspectives, and mysterious metaphors to make for very successful paintings. His work inspired later Surrealists painters.
Giorgio De Chirico studied art in Florence and Athens before attending the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. His early art depicted an influence based on paintings made from Arnold Bocklin and Max Klinger. Later on he would develop his art further by using more metaphysical (fictional or dreamlike images) with the use of value and perspective. In some of his art Chirico would depict an architecture that resembled that of Mediterranean cities (with no person in sight) and filled with strange or mythological objects such as in "Piazza d'Italia" and in "Love Song". It is said that eventually Chirico would paint somewhat more realistically after his metaphysical phase.
ReplyDeleteGiorgio De Chirico was a pre-surrealist and after awhile a surrealist. He had founded the Scoula Metafiscia art movement.
ReplyDeleteEnigma of the Hour is a painting of his that is now in a private collection.
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This painting was made in Paris France by Giorgio de chirico in 1912 an oil on canvas. He was an Italian painter who grew in greece. He was one of the originators of pittura metafisica an art movement. His paintings used a poetic image Of themes such as nostalgia, enigma, and myth. Giorgio was an impotant source of inspiration throught the inter wars period in europe. Giorgio was more than just a painter he was also a sculptor, theatre designer, print maker and writer.
ReplyDeleteThie was an interesting man. his work in my opinion shows great value and detail in color, great use of shadow texture and as well as an interesting style to express through painting.
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