Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico’s work is unrelated to any “isms” and is a defiant rejection of the rest of modern art. Most of de Chirico’s great paintings were completed before the outbreak of World War I, but at the end of the war, decadence started to set in. Gradually de Chirico turned from his radical style and obsessive visions to investigate the techniques of old masters like Rembrandt and Raphael, and in doing so sank into “Renaissance” classicism, which he practiced until the end of his career.