Birth Year : 1888
Death Year : 1978
Country : Greece
Giorgio de Chirico was born in Greece, to Italian parents. Although
he was the son of a railroad worker, Chirico quickly developed an interest
in art. He studied in Athens, Munich and Italy, and settled in Paris in
1912, where he stayed until the outbreak of the First World War. Until
his return to Paris in 1925, where he would live until 1940, Chirico lived
in Germany, and was influenced by the surrealism of Alfred Bocklin and
the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Thus, in 1917, along with Carlo
Carra, he founded the "Scuola Metafisica," a loosely formed group dedicated
to the exploration of the mystery and fantasy underlying the surface reality.
A well-regarded pre-Symbolist, Chirico was one of the first artists
to evoke a sense of mystery and poetry through the juxtaposition of seemingly
unlikely objects. He applied highly individualized, even autobiographical
motifs to his art works. His enigmatic groupings somehow suggest subtle
and elusive meanings that could be derived if only one had the keys to
unlock them.
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