Paintings Reproductions The Red Tower, 1913 by Giorgio De Chirico (Inspired By) (1888-1978, Greece) | WahooArt.com

Giorgio De Chirico (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 1913 - Metaphysical Art (i) Giorgio De Chirico founded the Scuola metafisica or the Metaphysical Art movement. This movement was marked by the use of dream-like landscapes, the artist was inspired by Nietzsche’s work and sought to depict reality with mythology or imagination. The painting The Red Tower shows a landscape from de Chirico’s mind, the foreground leads with two tall buildings with long arches that throw shade on the area and opens up to a field where there is a statue of a man riding a horse, and further in the background, there is a group of houses, a village and a large red tower that defines the whole landscape. The colours in the image are striking and his brushstrokes are invisible, The canvas presents a timelessness because although this is a product of imagination, it seems like it can also be found in Italian towns or the Mediterranean. The objects in the image are references that the artist collected while he was in Italy, Turin and Germany. The statue in the midground references the statue of King Carlo Alberto di Savoia in Turin where the philosopher Nietzsche also stayed when he wrote Ecce Homo.