Born Italian in 1888, raised in Greece, student at the Fine Arts in Munich, painter in Paris where he was exhibited in 1913 by gallery owner Paul Guillaume, Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) was a singular artist.
Far from the mimetic realism and naturalism of the impressionists who dissolved the figure in the light, this painter was nevertheless an anti-modern.
Contemporary of the plastic revolutions which would upset painting in the 20th century (abstraction, cubism, Dadaism), he did not espouse their credo - the deconstruction of forms and figures, which was to become one of the plastic dogmas of the 20th century. .
A work in the form of an enigmatic paradox
On the contrary, the figure is at the center of De Chirico's work.
But a figure anything but familiar, mimetic, reassuring.
Conversely, it wants to be constrained, confusing and offbeat, imprinted with a
"disturbing strangeness"
.
If the paintings of this extraordinary artist have fascinated and still fascinate, it is because they form a work which is above all an enigmatic paradox.
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