Still on the Surrealist kick and today’s post is one of thee most famous and for me the most interesting.
Enjoy your day!
Love,
Jamie
“To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are 
broken it will
enter the regions of childhood
vision and dream.”
Giorgio de Chirico was a pioneer in the revival of Classicism that flourished into a Europe-wide phenomenon in the 1920s. His own interest was likely encouraged by his childhood experiences
of being raised in Greece by Italian parents. And, while living in Paris in the 1910s, his homesickness may have led to the mysterious, classically-
inspired
pictures of empty town squares for
which he is best known
De Chirico is most famous for the eerie mood and strange artificiality of the cityscapes he painted in the 1910s. Their great achievement lies in the fact that he
treats the scenes not as
conventional cityscapes – as perspectives on places full of movement and everyday incident – but rather as the kinds of haunted streets we might encounter in dreams.
They are backdrops
for pregnant symbols or even, at times, for collections of objects that resemble still lifes. De Chirico’s innovative approach to these pictures – an approach rather
like that of a theatrical set
designer – has encouraged critics to describe them as “dream writings
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