philamuseum:

Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de Chirico had a profound impact on the movement. His starkly lit structures, desolate expanses, and inanimate figures are echoed throughout Surrealist landscape and portraiture. #TheSurrealists

See this and other works by de Chirico today in the exhibition “The Surrealists: Works from the Collection”

“The Soothsayer’s Recompense,” 1913. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome

Tags: 20th century, giorgio de chirico, italian art, modernism