Purity of the imagination by Giorgio de Chirico

Purity of the imagination by Giorgio de Chirico

Working on “Purity of the imagination,” de Chirico retains the same ratio of light and shadow as in work “Tower.” But attention is attracted no longer by the towers – the eye is attracted by a bright rectangle in the depth of the picture, brightly lit by the sun.

The picture in the picture – to this method the artist will still apply when writing the so-called metaphysical interiors. Here, geometric architectural arrays fill the space and, as it were, press on the viewer. This feeling arises from the fact that the plane of the picture seems to be tilted.

Continuing the search for style, the metaphysics of de Chirico finally draws near to the inner vision of reality, when objects turn into pure symbols. This is his challenge – in the pictures space and time freeze: space closes in itself, and time narrows down to his personal perception of the artist. The ultimate clarity of form and the darkness of meaning…

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