Giorgio de Chirico - Untitled

In this work, Giorgio de Chirico seems to be more closely inspired by Surrealism. The Surrealist aesthetic emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. In the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

In this drawing, De Chirico seems to have intended to transcribe a dreamlike vision. This transcends the confines of metaphysical art, which always remains within a rationalistic framework where logic directs the composition, creating an enigmatic and mysterious situation. The realistic execution method, however, remains, even if it clashes with the dog's elongated proportions. Furthermore, the pencil drawing technique reveals a very interesting side of the artist, quicker in execution and less static than his metaphysical paintings.

Giorgio De Chirico, born in Volos, Greece, in 1888, died in Rome in 1978. He is the founder of Metaphysical painting. De Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. But he creates an effect of estrangement through the process of displacement—the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context—or condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical painting is also characterized by the illusory nature of its images.

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