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Chirico, Giorgio de
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Chirico, Giorgio de (1888-1978)

Greek-born Italian painter. He founded the school of metaphysical painting, which in its enigmatic imagery and haunted, dreamlike settings presaged surrealism, as in Nostalgia of the Infinite (1911; Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Born in Volós, Chirico studied in Athens and Munich. Between 1911 and 1915 he worked in Paris, where he produced a remarkable series of paintings in which an uneasy sense of mystery is created by empty squares, deeply shadowed colonnades and toylike trains in the far distance. Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (Museum of Modern Art, New York) is an example of his style. In 1917 he met Carlo Carrà and they founded the school of metaphysical painting. The school was short-lived; Chirico's style gradually changed and by the 1930s, having repudiated the modern movement in art, he was reworking the styles of the old masters.



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Black collection includes sculptures by Rodin, Maillol, and Moore, paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Leger, Picasso, Braque, Vuillard, Signac, De Chirico, Miro, and magritte; as well as works on paper by Chagall, Pissarro, and Dega.
After multiple, largely coherent rooms, the spaces devoted to the modern and contemporary period, with updated representations of the afflicted by Munch, de Chirico, Dix, Francis Gruber, Hopper, and Ron Mueck, look like a morose art fair.
De Chirico apparently based his paintings on his exploration of the mysteries of life.
 
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