Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico often known as Népo, was an influential pre-Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement.

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• My paintings are small but each one is an enigma

• ...and what shall I love if not the enigma.

• One must paint all the phenomena of the world as an enigma.

• 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.