Giorgio de Chirico

Subject matter: This painting by Giorgio de Chirico
is called ‘The song of love’. It was painted in 1914 and was done in a
surrealist type. This is one of the most famous works of Giorgio. The moods are
quite calm as the colours aren’t extremely bright or eye catching. I think the
subject matter of the work itself I think is about the colour and composition
of objects in the painting.

Techniques: This art work is painted. The marks
on some parts of the work are really careful, to get the marks and the
proportions of every object right. The detail is very good in my opinion. The paint
that was used was oil paint and was painted on a canvas. The consistency of the
paint I think is different so it ranges from medium to thick. There is a lot of
depth in the work although we know the head sculpture is probably bigger than
the glove, the way its done makes us seem like it is the same size. There are
some things in the background which shows us that the glove is closer to us.
The colours used are some warm like orange and some cool like turquoise and
green. There is a lot of tonal range in this art work as we can see every shade
of the glove, or the sculpture head. The colours are quite dull in my opinion
it makes the work seem like the painting is really old. The texture seems to be smooth as there was only
oil paint used. The composition was very important to the artist as he wanted
to make the objects go just the way he wanted them to.

Artist’s career: Giorgio de Chirico was born in Greece,
Volos on 10th July,
1888. He was an Italian painter who was working in surrealism and scuola
metafisica. He went to Academy of Fine arts in Germany. He died in Rome, Italy on 20th November 1978 and was aged
90 when he died. (1888-07-10)