PITTURA METAFISICA

Metaphysical Painting is developed around 1913 by Giorgio de Chirico. This movement's paintings are still and quiet in contrast to the Futurist works. They has classical trimmings, disorted perspectives and strange dream imagery. Their strategy was to transcend the physcial appearance of reality, to make viewers nervous or surprise them with impossible to read and mysterious images.
Many of Chirico's paintings shows a lonely city square or claustrophobic interior painted in dark colours with theatrical lightning and amnious shadows.
The "metapyhsical" name was given by the French peot and art critic, Guillauma Apollinaire who first call De Chirico's painting with that adjective.
 Mario Sironi "Periferia" 1922


Giorgio De Chirico - Incertezza del poeta 1913


*Dempsey Amy, Art in the Modern Era, Harry N. Abrams Inc.,2002