10 chosen photos

- A collection of plants situated in a cubicle with strands of sunlight visible.

- Small plants and lichen starting to grow on the paved border of a street.

-Logs all piled up at the corner at the side of the building.

-Profile of one of the many trees that are found here, with it's bark slowly peeling away.

- Another brickwork covered in lichens and small plants.

- The sea waves slowly swash new materials onto the shore and backwash the old.

-Photo of a playground area, filled with memories of the past.

-The play area slowly deteriorate over time.

-Another image of the playground in another angle/perspective.

- Image of plant's bearings consumed by fungi.

Pictures for a theme

Giorgio de Chirico

 

The Prodigal Son. 1922. Oil on canvas. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea

(Museum of Contemporary Arts), Milan (Italy). [p]

The artwork was created by Giorgio de Chirico (mostly known as De Chirico), he was born on 10th of July in 1888 in Volos, Greece. He died on 20th November in 1978, aged 90 in Rome of Italy. [1] He established the Metaphysical Art movement, which played a vital role in inspiring surreal art.                                           

He studied Art in Athens under the guidance of Georgios Roilos and Georgio Jakobides. In 1906, he moved to Germany and entered the Academy of Fine Art in Munich, where he read writings from philosophers such as Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. [2] In 1910, he moved to Florence and painted “The enigma of an autumn afternoon”, after the revelation he had in Piazza Santa Croce on his journey to Paris. The painting is the first in the series of “Metaphysical Town Square”. He was interested in, according to him, the “metaphysical aspect” of Turin. [2]     

Ariadne, circa 1913, made with oil and graphite on canvas (135.3 × 180.3 cm). [a]

This artwork shows a statue of Ariadne sleeping in the foreground in a public square. In accordance to Greek Mythology, Ariadne was abandoned by her Lover Theseus as she slept in the Island of Naxos. She became a symbol of isolation and loneliness for De Chirico during his Metaphysical period. [a]

Metaphysical is to "to express the depressing emptiness and frightening coldness of a world estranged from man and to reveal a kind of secret, magical meaning in the arrangement of unrelated objects." [b] During his Metaphysical period his medium was mainly oil, later years he starts to explore more and uses etching, engraving and lithograph for his artworks. [n]

Reference:

[p]: http://www.abcgallery.com/C/chirico/chirico15.html

[1]: Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.120

[2]: Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico, Da Capo Press; New edition

[a]: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/486740?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information

[b]: Apollonio, U. Pittura metafisica. Venice, 1950.

[n]: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?ft=DE+CHIRICO