Who painted “The Song of Love”?

“The Song of Love” was painted by Giorgio de Chirico in 1914. Where to see it: Museum of Modern Art.

What to look for

Surrealism: dreamlike, illogical combinations painted realistically, or free, biomorphic shapes; Symbolism is mysterious too but tells myths, Surrealism shocks with the irrational.

Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico (10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. Wikipedia

Test yourself: a round on Giorgio de Chirico

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“The Disquieting Muses”, 1916
“The Child's Brain”, 1914
“Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure)”, 1914
“Nude Woman on the Beach”, 1932
“Turin Spring”, 1914
“Strange travelers”, 1922
“The one consolation”, 1958
“The Archaeologists”, 1927