Giorgio de Chirico

About

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece, to Italian parents. He studied art in Athens, Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, and Paris, influenced early by Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, as well as philosophers Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica (Metaphysical art) movement, characterized by enigmatic cityscapes with arcades, shadows, mannequins, and illogical perspectives, profoundly influencing Surrealism though he rejected association with it. In Ferrara during WWI, he collaborated with Carlo Carrà to develop pittura metafisica.[1][2][5]

Metaphysical painting; later neo-Baroque