Surrealism

• de Chirico (cont.)

  • Ariadne (1913)
    • motifs: childhood memory of Turin (Italy)
      • architectural settings
        • towers
        • piazza
      • trains
    • light/shadow: Nietzsche
      • hidden realities seen in strange juxtapositions
      • long shadows cast by setting sun into large open city squares & public monuments

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