Giorgio de chirico and biography

Giorgio de Chirico was born in Greece in 1888, to Italian parents.

They suggest, through an apparently unconscious symbolism of towers, arcades, and trains, feelings of panic and frustration. Guillaume Apollinaire writes a critique on occasion of a salon exhibition of Giorgio de Chirico's "Metaphysic Landscapes". De Chirico attempted to relate the work of these men to his painting, seeking to transcend the banal appearances of everyday life and uncover the reality that he believed was concealed beneath.

Mature Period

There were historical, mythological and philosophical themes in de Chirico's paintings throughout his career.

The architecture of the piazzas and archways made a considerable impact on him, and locations in the city can be spotted throughout his paintings from this period.

In May 1915, de Chirico and his brother were enlisted into the Italian army to fight in World War I. Based in Ferrara, de Chirico continued to paint, with the arcades and shop windows of the city appearing in his works.

That autumn he wrote an article in Valori Plastici entitled "The Return of Craftsmanship", which proposed a return to traditional methods and iconography in the style of Old Masters like Raphael and Signorelli, and became a vociferous opponent of modern art. Post photos, share your interests and dreams-we’ll help you look your best while you do it.Here we make it easy to meet Italian singles and feel things out first so when you do go on that first date, or meet for espresso, you can relax and be yourself.

However, he was troubled by intestinal disorders in his youth, and it has been speculated that this contributed to his melancholic outlook.

Early Training

From 1903 to 1905, de Chirico studied at the Higher School of Fine Arts in Athens. He makes the first paintings of the "Piazze d'Italia" as of 1912.

The surrealists acknowledge his painting just as much as the painters of New Objectivity and Magic Realism. At least 18 copies of this painting exist, which were backdated by the artist to suggest that he had painted them in the late 1910s, just like this picture. In early 1919, de Chirico had his first solo show at the Galleria Bragaglia in Rome.

Late Period

De Chirico's later period of work is usually said to start in 1919 and lasted until his death in 1978.

Upon his father's death in 1905, the family visited Florence before moving to Munich the following year. He is in Paris from 1911 to 1915, participating in exhibitions in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. Besides the art world proper, de Chirico's influence can be seen on everything from the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni's shots of desolate cityscapes and urban anomie to the environments and packaging for the videogame Ico for the Playstation 2.

He sought to remedy this while in Rome, particularly between 1919 and 1924, where he worked on his technique and was inspired by the Old Masters.

During these years, de Chirico's work was also branching into other mediums. His father was an engineer working on the construction of the Greek railway system and his mother was a noblewoman of Genoese origin.

They are backdrops for pregnant symbols or even, at times, for collections of objects that resemble still lifes. The following year, in 1914, thanks to Guillaume Apollinaire, he agreed a contract with the art dealer Paul Guillaume.

Metaphysical School of Painting (La Scuola Metafisica)

On the outbreak of World War I, De Chirico returned to Italy and was drafted into the army.

In a military hospital in Ferrara he meets the painter Carlo Carrà in 1917, who decides to join him. Indeed, it was during the late 1920s, when Surrealism began to dominate the art world of the inter-war years, that De Chirico's international reputation was established, although chiefly for his pre-1920 output.

Returns to Renaissance Craftsmanship

After 1917, when he painted masterpieces like The Disquieting Muses, (Gianni Mattioli Collection, Milan), de Chirico's work declined, although he created a body of remarkable still life painting and portrait-art in 1919, and his work began to be exhibited extensively in Europe.

In 1919, he moved to Rome, turned his back on Metaphysical imagery, and became increasingly concerned with questions of pictorial technique. These two groups consider de Chirico an architect as much as a painter, seeing in his enigmatic piazzas and towers visions and plans for future cities.