When The World Became A De Chirico Painting

Summary by Krater

This video explores how Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical paintings of empty town squares were inspired by his convalescence in Florence and how similar eerie urban emptiness was experienced globally during coronavirus lockdowns.

From the video

Answers: How did Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical art connect to the empty city streets during coronavirus lockdowns?

• Giorgio de Chirico
• metaphysical art movement
• the Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon
• Surrealism
• coronavirus pandemic lockdowns
• urban emptiness
• Meditations of a Painter
• The Parisian Manuscripts
• Metaphysical Town Squares series

What it concludes

• Giorgio de Chirico's experience of convalescence led him to perceive the world as fundamentally strange and healing, inspiring his metaphysical town square paintings.
• De Chirico believed that to make the world new for the viewer, it must be made strange, living in an immense museum of curious multicoloured toys.
• De Chirico's paintings influenced the Surrealists by capturing a world of dream logic and irrational juxtapositions.
• Pandemic lockdowns turned global cities into museums of strangeness, offering a unique perspective akin to de Chirico's metaphysical art.