Maker/Artist
Chirico, Giorgio de
Italian painter, writer, and scenographer, 1888-1978
Giorgio de Chirico was an important source of inspiration for artists throughout Europe in the inter-war years, particularly the surrealists. His career was marked by stylistic changes and reversals. In his early heroic phase, he created fictive space with exaggerated one-point perspective rendering city squares, receding arcades, distant walls, or claustrophobic interiors. Human forms were represented as classical statues or mannequins.
