About Anxious Journeys
Anxious Journeys is a series of travel or journey based photography projects influenced by the Metaphysical art of the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978).
Metaphysical painting (Italian: pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. The movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality, “painting that which cannot be seen”. Wikipedia
Mystery and Melancholy…
My interest in de Chirico’s work covers the period from 1910 until about 1930 – and includes works such as; Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, The Melancholy of Departure, The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon and, the theme for this series, ‘The Anxious Journey’.
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