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Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical Approach to Gender

De Chirico established many of the themes that informed his paintings whilst still in his early twenties. They primarily revolved around: the relationship between metaphysics and perspective; the poetics of spatiotemporal discontinuity; and visual meta-languages, much of which was underpinned by philosophical and poetic texts by Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche.

In terms of pictorial expression the themes were communicated via depictions of: Italian piazzas, mannikins, Greek Gods and Goddesses, votive food, self-portraits, archaic and Risorgimento statues, horses, centaurs, gladiators (in domestic interiors), Roman charioteers and Knight Errants (Figs.1-10).
                                                                                                  

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