"To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all
human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once
these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision
and dream." - Giogio de Chirico
"While living in Paris in the
1910s, his homesickness may have led to the mysterious,
classically-inspired pictures of empty town squares for which he is best
known. It was work in this style that encouraged him to form the
short-lived movement, along with the painter Carlo Carrà. His work in this mode attracted considerable notice, particularly in France, where the Surrealists
championed him as a precursor."
"In the 1920s his style
began to embrace qualities of Renaissance and
art, a move that soon drew criticism from his old supporters. For many
years afterwards, the Surrealists' disapproval of his late work shaped
the attitude of critics."
"[His work] was certainly influential on a new
generation of Italian painters in the 1980s."
His work is full of innuendos! Freud's opinions meant something to him and his work clearly shows this. Very dream-like paintings, random and mysterious, like the odd combinations of things in dreams. Don't really like his work, bit too weird for me, but whatever floats your boat! Also, having done a year of Psychology as AS level, I'm quite aware of Freud and his crazy ideas about things, and I definitely don't agree with them...so I guess that already makes me kind of biased against this artwork, but ah well.
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