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Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Painting)
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was unimpressed by the avant-garde movements of the years immediately prior to World War I.

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FINK, EUGEN, Fenomeni fondamentali dell'esistenza umana, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2006.

Pittura Metafisica)
movement of c.1915-18 associated with the painter Giorgio de Chirico; partly a reaction against Futurism.
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"This phase of his work - the so-called pittura metafisica - lasted until about 1918. Thereafter, de Chirico changed. He wanted to become, and almost succeeded in becoming, a classicist. He imagined himself to be the heir of Titian.

Metaphysical School [Scuoloa Metafisica]
Metaphysical painting is mainly associated with the work of Giorgio de Chirico, who early in the century, first showed his interest in eerie, ...

Metaphysical Painting (ital. Pittura Metafisica) is an Italian art movement, born in 1917 with the work of Carlo Carrą and Giorgio de Chirico in Ferrara. The word metaphysical, adopted by De Chirico himself, is core to the poetics of the movement.

The term was first used around 1910--20 to describe the works of the Italian artists Georgio de Chirico and Carlo Carra. The term comes from the Italian Pittura Metafisica.
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See also: Painting, Movement, Realism, Pittura metafisica, Classic

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