Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2003 Издание:Merrell Страниц: 216 ISBN: [не указан] Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the twentieth century. His early success in Paris and subsequent lionization by the Surrealists were followed by decades of negative criticism. While his enigmatic Metaphysical paintings, with their dreamlike imagery of deserted city squares filled with mysterious shadows, stopped clocks, and sleeping statues, had a powerful impact on modern art, de Chirico himself abandoned modernism in the 1920s for a return to the techniques of the old masters. A key to understanding de Chirico's oeuvre is an influential series of paintings he made in 1912-13 of the mythical Cretan princess Ariadne. De Chirico's increasing engagement with Paris's avant-garde art scene can be traced in the series, as well as the coalescence of his own painting style. In later years the artist would return to the Ariadne theme again and again in his vast series of Piazza d'ltalia paintings, which in their repetition...
