In the last years of his life, de Chirico never tired of experimenting in stylistics. In particular, a number of his later paintings have a certain comic. It is obvious, for example, in “The Return of Ulysses” or in a series of strange canvases depicting the connected by wires the Sun and the Moon.
The luminaries are written in contrast: if the Sun is blazing, then the Moon remains black, and vice versa. It seems that all the energy alternates from one celestial body to another according to the mentioned truths. Repeats, as a rule, and an unusual background – the artist’s workshop, the area of the Italian city, etc.
This picture, in this sense, is no exception. On its foreground there is an altar, the device of which de Chirico studied in the students, doing ancient art. It is possible that this work is a metaphor for the connection that exists between the burning past, the quietly smoldering present and the impenetrable darkness of the future. The visible sign of this metaphor is the electric cable stretched between different parts of the picture.
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