De Chirico won praise for his work almost immediately from the writer Guillaume Apollinaire, who helped to introduce his work to the later Surrealists. De Chirico strongly influenced the Surrealist movement: Yves Tanguy wrote how one day in 1922 he saw one of De Chirico’s paintings in an art dealer’s window, and was so impressed by it he resolved on the spot to become an artist—although he had never even held a brush. Other Surrealists who acknowledged De Chirico’s influence include Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, and René Magritte.
In the paintings of his metaphysical period, De Chirico developed a repertoire of motifs—empty arcades, towers, elongated shadows, mannequins, and trains among others—that he arranged to create “images of forlornness and emptiness” that paradoxically also convey a feeling of “power and freedom”.
The Song of Love 1914
Giorgio De Chirico painted a mounted a mythology Greek sculpted head and a medical doctors glove. And underneath is a green ball. On the horizon is the outline of a train, an image that also appears several times in De Chirico’s paintings.Although De Chirico is a member of the surrealist movement, he is more known for his metaphysical paintings. There’s something rather appealing about his roman abstract paintings.
The Disquieting Muses 1916-1918
This piece was painted during the world war I. the main things in this piece are the two Goddess, dressed in roman like Greek mythology, clothing. I believe the main character is standing and the other is sitting down, and they are among various objects. The statue on a pedestal in the background is Apollo, leader of the Muses who was a Roman God also known as son of Zeus and Leto. I picked this piece because I like the warm use of the colour pallet. And I really like where he got his inspiration.
The red tower 1913
in this image you see a red tower in the distance and at the bottom is a small town. And on the far right is a statue of a horseman, and beneath it a stretched shadow and two large walls on both sides with a big shadow stretching from one end to the other. Again he uses these warm colours as if to represent a Rome like atmosphere. I picked this image because I like the warm colours and how he’s made it give of a sense of Rome.
Charlene Morgan / Illustration 