Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Art)

Pittura Metafisica, or Metaphysical Art, lasted only 9 years between 1911 and 1920, with only two artists, Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carra exercising the movement. Their works portrays dreamlike landscapes with sharp contrasts of light and shadow. This highly expresses the bedrock of the soul metaphysical art, which the feeling of melancholy and the fear of the unknown.

Paintings by Giorgio de Chirico such as "The mystery and melancholy of a street" are good examples of such an ideology, which hints the limits of human reason and the irreducible unknown that lay beyond it. With the unknown, it is then up to art to try to explore and define this realm.Man fear the unknown and the unseen, which is being played around in the works of Giorgio de Chirico. Giving his works physical reality and thought, it offers a scary, uplifting glimpse into infinite space.