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Giorgio de Chirico ( July 10 , 1888 – November 20 , 1978 ) was an influential Pre-Surrealist Greek-Italian Painter born in Volos , Greece to Sicilian parents. He founded the ''scuola metafisica'' art movement. LIFE AND WORK After studying art in Athens and Florence , de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Academy Of Fine Arts in Munich , where he read the writings of the philosophers Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer , and studied the works of Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger . He returned to Italy in the summer of when he returned to Italy to enlist in the Italian army during World War I . De Chirico is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919 , his metaphysical period, which are memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images. At the start of this period, his subjects were still cityscapes inspired by the bright daylight of Mediterranean cities, but gradually he turned his attention to studies of cluttered storerooms, sometimes inhabited by Mannequin -like hybrid figures. Later in his life De Chirico abandoned the metaphysical style and started painting more realistically. His later paintings never received the same critical praise as did those from his metaphysical period. De Chirico also published a novel in , was also a writer and a painter. LEGACY De Chirico won praise for his work almost immediately from writer Guillaume Apollinaire , who helped to introduce his work to the later Surrealists . Yves Tanguy wrote how one day in 1922 he saw one of De Chirico's paintings in an art dealer's window, and was so impressed by it he resolved on the spot to become an artist — although he had never even held a brush. Other artists who acknowledged De Chirico's influence include Max Ernst , Salvador Dalí , René Magritte , and Philip Guston . De Chirico strongly influenced the Surrealist movement. Michelangelo Antonioni , the Italian film director, also claimed to be influenced by De Chirico. Some comparison can be made to the long takes in Antonioni's films from the 1960s , in which the camera continues to linger on desolate cityscapes populated by a few distant figures, or none at all, in the absence of the film's protagonists. TRIVIA The European and Japanese cover of the PlayStation 2 Video Game '' Ico '' was inspired by Giorgio de Chirico's work. The 1914 painting, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, was used as the cover for the first UK paperback edition of Philip Pullman 's '' The Subtle Knife '', part of the His Dark Materials trilogy. SELECTED WORKS
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