The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the
head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise
to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist
art: Giorgio de Chirico's "The Song of Love" (1914). De Chirico
made his career in Paris in the years before World War I, combining
his nostalgia for ancient Mediterranean culture with his
fascination for the curios found in Parisian shop windows. Beloved
by the Surrealists, this uncanny image exemplifies de Chirico's
radical "metaphysical" painting, which creates a disturbing sense
of unreality, outside logical space and time, through the novel
depiction of ordinary things. Emily Braun's essay explores the
sources behind the work's enigmatic motifs, its influence on
avant-garde painters and poets, and its continuing ability to
captivate viewers as de Chirico intended, even a century after it
was made.
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