DE CHIRICO

Greek-born Italian painter, Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) was hugelyinfluential in the early years of the Surrealist movement. His paintingsduring the teens in Paris, where he moved in 1911, caused such a stir thatsuch important figures as Picasso and Paul Eluard immediately praised them.This phase of his work, which he later termed pittura metafisica(metaphysical painting) was marked by dramatic compositions involvingsharp perspective, striking shadows, geometrical planes, voids of space,and a general feeling of anxiety and loneliness; the sense of absurdityevoked by the mannequin-like figures in almost nightmarish landscapesseemed to suggest a Freudian expression of the unconscious. After 1930, DeChirico turned to a more classical style of painting and continued in thesame vein for the rest of his career; his later work was widelycriticized, especially by the Surrealists who had so admired his earlypaintings. Nowy tytuł z serii "wielcy malarze". Wersja angielska. Nowacena. Miękka okładka, 96 stron,wymiary 18,5x23cm.