De Chirico in quotes, the famous artist on his painting & life - free resource, Italian art history

Giorgio de Chirico in quotes - the famous artist on his painting art and artistic life in Italy - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in Italian art history

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Giorgio de Chirico was a famous Greece-born painter in Italy and founder of the art style ‘Pittura Metafisica’ (Metaphysical Painting). He was strongly admired by the later artists of Surrealism; they adored him as a precursor of their art movement. Classical architecture was a main motive in De Chirico’s painting art, often combined with some human figures.
Later in his life De Chirico changed his painting into a more ‘classical’ painting style, inspired by the old painters of Renaissance.

Some selected artist-quotes of famous Italian artist De Chirico - as a short impression of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’My paintings are small (the biggest is 50 x 70 cm), but each of them is an enigma, each contains a poem, an atmosphere (Stimmung) and a promise that you can not find in other paintings. It brings me immense joy…’ - quote of De Chirico in his letter to Mr. Fritz Gartz, from Florence, Jan. 1910

• ’…the flat surface of a perfectly calm ocean (which) disturbs us… …by all the unknown that is hidden in the depth.’ - quote of De Chirico, 1919 (comparing a metaphysical work of art to the impression of a calm ocean)

• ’…can you (contemporary painters) ever get close, even vaguely, to the solidity, the transparency, the lyric strength of colour… …of the paintings of Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Dürer, Holbein or of young Raphael?’ - quote of his text ‘Pro tempera oratio’, c. 1920

• ’Painting is the magic art, the fire set alight on the windows of the rich dwelling, as on those of the humble hovel, from the last rays of the setting sun, it is the long mark, the humid mark… …that the dying wave etches on the hot sand…’ - quote of De Chirico, from his essay ‘Painting’ in 1938
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  links for selected free art-resources on Giorgio de Chirico:

  • extended biographical notes of De Chirico, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico
  • artist-quotes of ànd about De Chirico, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giorgio_de_Chirico
  • images of his metaphhysical painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/chirico
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]