119 Giorgio de Chirico, The Purity of a Dream (La pureté d’un...

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Description: The Purity of a Dream (La pureté d’un rêve)

TitleThe Purity of a Dream (La pureté d’un rêve)

Creator nameDe Chirico, Giorgio

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1915

Creation date (description)January-May 1915

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions65 × 50 cm

LocationPrivate Collection

SubjectsArcades (Architecture)Trees in artWindows in artMetaphysical school (Art movement)

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Allusions to Ocean Park

John Elderfield

Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (Volume 1: Essays and References)

The large, olive-green wedge that drops from the upper left edge of Ocean Park #31 (1970; fig. 70) very quietly stirs a memory, eventually summoning up a grass-green wedge that rises at the left side of Henri Matisse’s Piano Lesson (1916; fig. 71). Then, looking around, we see...

Author

John Elderfield

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00300.4

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Chapter subject tags:Artists--United States--BiographyPainting, Abstract--United StatesPost-impressionism (Art)Art, American--20th centuryPainting, Modern--20th century

3. The Prison-House of Painting: The Enigma of Fatality

Ara H. Merjian

Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris

Describing de Chirico’s contributions to the 1914 Salon des Indépendants, Guillaume Apollinaire underscores the selective tenor of their imagery. The critic also borrows some of the painter’s pet terms: “enigma” and “fatality.” De Chirico’s submissions to this year’s Salon – The Nostalgia of...

Author

Ara H. Merjian

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.121-169

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00059.007

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Chapter subject tags:Metaphysics in artSymbolism in artCommercial artMelancholy in artArchitecture in art

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