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Metaphysical painting
Italian Pittura Metafisica
Style of painting that flourished circa 1910–20 in the works of the Italian painters Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà (1881–1966). The movement began with Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality. Chirico, his younger brother Alberto Savinio, and Carrà formally established the school and its principles in 1917. Their representational but bizarre and incongruous imagery produces disquieting effects and had a strong influence on Surrealism in the 1920s.
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Metaphysical may refer to:
- Metaphysics, a branch of philosophy dealing with aspects of the ultimate nature of reality
- Metaphysical poets, a poetic school from seventeenth century England who correspond with baroque period in European literature
- Metaphysical art, a style of painting invented by Giorgio De Chirico
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