Metaphysical Interior with Large Factory
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Metaphysical Interior with Large Factory (1916–17) is a painting by the Italian
metaphysical painter
Giorgio de Chirico
. It is part of a series that extended late into de Chirico’s career.
Like the other works in this series it depicts a small room cluttered with surreal objects. This time the main focus is a framed picture of a factory complex.
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metaphysical painter
Metaphysical art
Metaphysical art , style of painting that flourished mainly between 1911 and 1920 in the works of the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began with Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality...
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement...
. It is part of a series that extended late into de Chirico’s career.
Like the other works in this series it depicts a small room cluttered with surreal objects. This time the main focus is a framed picture of a factory complex.