De Chirico painted surealist scenes in the early 1900s. What they lack in realism and movement they make up for in emotion and apprehension. Below are excerpts from his writings:
“I remember one vivid winter’s day at Versailles. Silence and calm reigned supreme. Everything gazed at me with mysterious, questioning eyes. And then I realized that every corner of the palace, every column, every window possessed a spirit, an impenetrable soul. I looked around at the marble heroes, motionless in the lucid air, beneath the frozen rays of that winter sun which pours down on us without love, like perfect song. A bird was warbling in a window cage. At that moment I grew aware of the mystery which urges men to create certain strange forms. And the creation appeared more extraordinary than the creators."--De Chirico
“The Architectonic Sense in Ancient Painting” published by Chirico in 1920, confesses:
“The angels conceal secrets, and the work of art is no longer (…) limited by the acts of the figures represented, but is the entire cosmic and vital drama which envelopes man and constricts him within its spirals, in which past and future are confused, in which the enigmas of existence, sanctified by the breath of art, strip off the tangled and fearful aspects that man imagines beyond art to restore the eternal, tranquil and consoling aspect of the structures that are created by genius.”--De Chirico
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