Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical Painting.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 23054 |
| Format | 20 x 29 |
| Détails | 232 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754111355 |
The exhibition Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical Painting at the Musée de l'Orangerie, from September 16 to December 14, 2020, retraces the artistic and philosophical journey and influences that nourished the artist Giorgio de Chirico from Munich to Turin, then to Paris where he discovered the pictorial avant-gardes of his time and finally to Ferrara. In a unique way, the painter's connections, discovered by Apollinaire and then supported by the dealer Paul Guillaume, with Parisian cultural and literary circles will be highlighted. Born in Greece and trained in the crucible of classical culture and late German Romanticism, de Chirico developed the foundations of a new artistic conception alongside his younger brother Alberto Savinio. A student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1908, he discovered the thought of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer as well as the works of Böcklin and Klinger. After a stay in Milan and then Florence, it was however from France, in Paris from the autumn of 1911, that he established a singular plastic vocabulary in contact with the modernist pictorial revolutions. He was very quickly noticed by certain artistic personalities of his time. Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Raynal and André Salmon, but also André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jean Paulhan, were among the first to take an interest in his work and to promote it. The exhibition thus finds its place at the Musée de l'Orangerie around the figure of Paul Guillaume who was the very first dealer of Giorgio de Chirico. Returning to Italy in 1915, he was sent with his brother Savinio to Ferrara for military reasons and continued his pictorial research there. The Ferrara period (June 1915-December 1918) was an opportunity for the painters Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi to frequent the two brothers, thus allowing the formation of what would later be called the "metaphysical school" and on which the exhibition closes.
The exhibition Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical Painting at the Musée de l'Orangerie, from September 16 to December 14, 2020, retraces the artistic and philosophical journey and influences that nourished the artist Giorgio de Chirico from Munich to Turin, then to Paris where he discovered the pictorial avant-gardes of his time and finally to Ferrara. In a unique way, the painter's connections, discovered by Apollinaire and then supported by the dealer Paul Guillaume, with Parisian cultural and literary circles will be highlighted. Born in Greece and trained in the crucible of classical culture and late German Romanticism, de Chirico developed the foundations of a new artistic conception alongside his younger brother Alberto Savinio. A student at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1908, he discovered the thought of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer as well as the works of Böcklin and Klinger. After a stay in Milan and then Florence, it was however from France, in Paris from the autumn of 1911, that he established a singular plastic vocabulary in contact with the modernist pictorial revolutions. He was very quickly noticed by certain artistic personalities of his time. Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Raynal and André Salmon, but also André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jean Paulhan, were among the first to take an interest in his work and to promote it. The exhibition thus finds its place at the Musée de l'Orangerie around the figure of Paul Guillaume who was the very first dealer of Giorgio de Chirico. Returning to Italy in 1915, he was sent with his brother Savinio to Ferrara for military reasons and continued his pictorial research there. The Ferrara period (June 1915-December 1918) was an opportunity for the painters Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi to frequent the two brothers, thus allowing the formation of what would later be called the "metaphysical school" and on which the exhibition closes.