No Italian painter of this century has aroused so much comment, from eulogy to outright condemnation, as Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). One of the initiators of surrealism, he is a key figure in modern art; his influence on later painters, particularly during his "metaphysical" period, is second on[...]
The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chirico's "The Song of Love" (1914). De Chirico made his career in Paris in the years[...]
For the artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), a founder of the Metaphysical art movement, the year 1914 marked a momentous and pivotal time in his aesthetic production. He completed most of his well-known paintings of metaphysical cityscapes that year, just before the advent of World War I, while l[...]
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Kunst - Malerei, Note: 1,0, Staatliche Hochschule f r Gestaltung Karlsruhe, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Giorgio de Chirico geh rt zu den einflussreichsten Malern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seine fr hen metaphysischen Bilder fanden gro en Anklang, vor allem b[...]