The Uncertainty of the Poet – (Giorgio De Chirico) ◄ ankstesnis Kitas ►

Menininkas: Giorgio De Chirico

stilius: Metaphysical Art

Tematika: Arcades Fruits Monuments

Data: 1913

Dydis: 106 x 94 cm

Muziejus: Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)

technika: Oil On Canvas

Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund (Eugene Cremetti Fund), the Carroll Donner Bequest, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and members of the public 1985. De Chirico’s quiet square evokes the classical arcades and statuary of antiquity (the sculpture is a torso of Aphrodite). In contrast, the passing train and perishable bananas suggest a sense of the contemporary and immediate. The distorted perspective and shadows undermine the conventions of pictorial space and time. De Chirico’s early works were enthusiastically embraced by the Surrealists, who saw in them a dream-like parallel existence. The poet Paul Eluard wrote: ‘these squares are outwardly similar to existing squares and yet we have never seen them ... We are in an immense, previously inconceivable, world.’