Brief introduction of Kiriko

Giorgio de Chirico (1888— 1978) was born in Greece. My parents are Italian. My father is an engineer in railway construction. Worked in Greece and Germany. Kiriko studied sketching in Athens in his early years, and then studied painting in Athens Institute of Technology for four years. After his father died, the whole family moved to Munich. Kiriko also has a younger brother, Alberto Savigno, who studies music. Kiriko received his initial art education mainly in Munich, and he liked the works of late German painters Ficklin and klinger very much. At the same time, Freud's psychoanalysis theory and its research on the expression of intuition, illusion and subconscious images in painting art have had a very wide influence on German painters' research on human emotional phenomena. Although Kiriko was tolerant of Expressionism painting who appeared in Munich, he did not follow this style. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's philosophy is the decisive factor of his metaphysical painting. Their discussion on the rational world of human beings gave Kiriko a strong inspiration. In Nietzsche's works, the description of the arch building of Turin Square and its long shadow left a deep impression on young Kiriko. 19 15 He described this impression as the silence of Chengdu spirit and the melancholy and mystery of a street. In many later works, he was always inseparable from squares, arches and long projections. For example, the fortune teller's reward, the uneasy journey, the art of disturbing fortune tellers and so on.