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Giorgio de Chirico. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 1914. De Chirico was a pre-Surrealist painter who started a movement called Metaphysical art His dream-like paintings of squares typical of idealized Italian cities, as well as apparently casual juxtapositions of objects, represented a visionary world which engaged most immediately with the unconscious mind, beyond physical reality, hence the name. The metaphysical movement provided significant impetus for the development of Dada and Surrealism.

Giorgio de Chirico. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street 1914.
De Chirico was a pre-Surrealist painter who started a movement called Metaphysical art

His dream-like paintings of squares typical of idealized Italian cities, as well as apparently casual juxtapositions of objects, represented a visionary world which engaged most immediately with the unconscious mind, beyond physical reality, hence the name. The metaphysical movement provided significant impetus for the development of Dada and Surrealism.

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