The visually seductive, topsy-turvy world of unreason is meticulously rendered in this painting by Giorgio de Chirico ... when she wrote her own poem entitled "The Uncertainty of the Poet ...

Taut fancies like this helped the ambitious young artist generate a bold new visual poetry that, 10 years later, powerfully inspired the surrealists. But de Chirico was more compelling than any of ...

Giorgio de Chirico's The Uncertainty of the Poet, 1913.Credit: Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome In 1970 the same venue presented de Chirico’s first Italian retrospective. That show was ...

It is hard to think of any major artist who more dramatically challenges this familiar view of style than Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978 ... also offers “The Poet’s Pleasures” (1912 ...

A recent collection of de Chirico’s poetry, Geometry of Shadows, translated by Stefania Heim, recaptures something of the original vitality of his art. As Heim’s translations make clear ...

Ernst described a visit he had paid to de Chirico’s studio, in company with Giacometti and the poet André Breton, leader of the Surrealists. De Chirico showed this Surrealist deputation a ...

Art is brief. Life longer is. (Note: italicised lines are from a fragment of poetry by Giorgio de Chirico.Poem taken from De Chirico's Threads, published by Seren.) ...