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Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Surrealism

Metaphysical painter of empty piazzas and impossible shadows — the legally clean lineage for representing Surrealism here.

Selected Key Works

Paintings from this archive that define Giorgio de Chirico's visual signature.

SurrealismThe Song of Love by Giorgio de Chirico

The Song of Love

Giorgio de Chirico

Open work
SurrealismMystery and Melancholy of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Giorgio de Chirico

Open work

Signature Visual Language

Great artists repeat themselves in useful ways.

De Chirico's plazas are calm and clean right up until you notice the perspective doesn't resolve and the shadows have no visible sun — architecture staged for unease rather than description.

Impossible perspective
Long, sourceless shadows
Charged symbolic objects