Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian painter and writer who is best known for his influence on the Surrealism movement. He originally founded the scuola metafisica art movement, a movement that began in 1911 and introduced dreamlike art with high contrasts of lights and shadows. Art of this Era was characterized as having a “vaguely threatening, mysterious quality”. The scuola metafisica art movement profoundly influenced the surrealist artists.
What is surrealism?
Surrealism was an avant-garde movement in art and literature in the 20th century. The creative dreamlike art of this time is often recognizable for its use of juxtaposition that blurred the line between reality and the unconscious mind.
