Italian artist (1888–1978)
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He painted empty piazzas where the light falls wrong and faceless mannequins wait under arcades that obey no rational geometry — then spent the second half of his career dismissing the modernity he'd helped invent.
Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was born in Volos, Greece, on 10 July 1888, to a Greek-Italian family. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, filling canvases with Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, and trains arranged in illogical perspective — imagery steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and the mythology of his birthplace. The work profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, de Chirico turned against modern art, studied traditional techniques, and worked in neoclassical or neo-Baroque modes, though he kept ci…
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To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere.
Profound statements must be drawn by the artist from the most secret recesses of his being; there no murmuring torrent, no birdsong, no rustle of leaves can distract him.
What I hear is valueless; only what I see is living, and when I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
Perhaps the most amazing sensation passed on to us by prehistoric man is that of presentiment. It will always continue.
I remember one vivid winter’s day at Versailles. Silence and calm reigned supreme,. Everything gazed at me with mysterious, questioning eyes.
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