Many are the
philosophical implications
which enfold De Chirico's Metaphysical art. Therefore,
the viewer
is inevitably
involved
in what we could define as a
metaphysical journey
, where thinkers such as
Nietzsche
and
Schopenhauer
are essential pillars. Through his
unsetting, uncanny, beautiful art
, De Chirico aspires to
unveil the secret essence of things
,
concealed behind the surface
accessible to us through the senses. To this regard his
art
is
utterly philosophical
, his pictures are
investigations of the unknown
they don't describe, they inquire
and by doing this
they floor us
as they dwell on that
mysterious yet familiar limbo
sited between ordinary and extraordinary reality,
logic and absurd, physics and metaphysics. If surrealists were focused on what dwelled within, De Chirico was totally concerned about the perceivable world:
too easy spotting an enigma in the world of dreams
, even banal, much more intriguing, on a philosophical level, is trying to depict it on the things we look at with our own eyes. The Italian artist managed to do this in a wonderful way and this book concerns the
marvelous path he undertook
, underpinned on a constant, powerful,
extraordinary combination of art and knowledge
.