Song of Love. The Song of Love is a painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.
It is one of the most famous works by de Chirico and an early example of the surrealist style, though it was painted ten years before the movement was founded by André Breton in 1924. It depicts an outdoor architectural setting similar to other works by de Chirico at this time.
This time however, the main focus is a small wall on which is mounted a Greek sculpted head and a surgeon's glove. Below it is a green ball.
On the horizon is the outline of a locomotive, an image that recurs several times during this period of de Chirico's career. The Metaphysical Art Movement was created by Giorgio De Chirico and Carlo Carrà, who had previously been a Futurist.
These paintings would depict Italian city squares that are unnaturally void of people. These city squares would often include a grouping of objects that provide a strange juxtaposition. With these driving elements in his paintings, Giorgio De Chirico created a dreamlike reality that was beyond the physical world. Aspects like the strange grouping of object in The Song of Love is what André Breton and the Surrealist looked up to when organizing their movement. The actual art movement only lasted the six months De Chirico and Carrà worked together, Metaphysical Art is the movement associated with all of De Chirico's work after 1911. De Chirico p
It is one of the most famous works by de Chirico and an early example of the surrealist style, though it was painted ten years before the movement was founded by André Breton in 1924. It depicts an outdoor architectural setting similar to other works by de Chirico at this time.
This time however, the main focus is a small wall on which is mounted a Greek sculpted head and a surgeon's glove. Below it is a green ball.
On the horizon is the outline of a locomotive, an image that recurs several times during this period of de Chirico's career. The Metaphysical Art Movement was created by Giorgio De Chirico and Carlo Carrà, who had previously been a Futurist.
These paintings would depict Italian city squares that are unnaturally void of people. These city squares would often include a grouping of objects that provide a strange juxtaposition. With these driving elements in his paintings, Giorgio De Chirico created a dreamlike reality that was beyond the physical world. Aspects like the strange grouping of object in The Song of Love is what André Breton and the Surrealist looked up to when organizing their movement. The actual art movement only lasted the six months De Chirico and Carrà worked together, Metaphysical Art is the movement associated with all of De Chirico's work after 1911. De Chirico p
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