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Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was an Italian painter, scenographer, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor.  After studying art in Munich, where he had been influenced by, among others, Max Klinger, he moved to Paris in 1911. In the 1910s, he executed the paintings for which he has become most famous, the so-called "metaphysical" paintings. In the 1920s Chirico's painting is characterized by paintings with mannequins, mechanical drawing instruments and strange, ghostly interiors. The paintings from this period are counted among the highlights of modern, representational painting. After 1929, Chirico broke into entirely new paths and developed a mannered, naturalistic style, and from 1933 he openly distanced himself from the modernist movement. In the 1940s he began a series of lawsuits against the owners of what he believed to be genuine metaphysical images, which he now claimed were fakes. In the sixties, he began his "neo-metaphysical" style, which is characterized by an even more artificial color scale than in the earlier pictures, and that the metaphysical iconography developed in the decade has now also been influenced by Chirico's later works.

November 17th 2024

 

 
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