DE CHIRICO

The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise t o one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chiricos The Song of Love (1914). De Chirico m ade his career in Paris in the years before World War I, combining his nostalgia for ancient Mediterranean culture with his fascinat ion for the curios found in Parisian shop windows. Beloved by the Surrealists, this uncanny image exemplifies de Chiricos radical metaphysical ...[Llegir més]