Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Soothsayer's Recompense
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Soothsayer's Recompense
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Image View:
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Overall view without fame; sculpture in center represents Ariadne
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Creator:
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Giorgio de Chirico (Italian painter, 1888-1978)
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Location:
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repository: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
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Location Note:
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1380 Sherbrooke Street West; Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace
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GPS:
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+45.4987-73.5801
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Date:
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1913 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Metaphysical (modern Italian fine arts style and movement); Surrealist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; allegory; architecture; mythology (Classical); trains; smokestack; arcade; Ariadne
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Description:
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This is one in a series of paintings (Piazze d’Italia series) and shares the same title (and most of the same motifs) as does a work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From around 1910 to 1914 the city squares became increasingly dream-like, dotted with the apparently unconnected and out-of-scale objects that delighted the early Surrealists. The steam train that chugs along on the horizon is a reference to de Chirico’s dead father, a railway engineer. By the end of 1912 these Italianate town squares began to be occupied by the mythological figure of Ariadne; her assistance to Theseus in the escape from the Minotaur’s labyrinth was a symbol of revelation. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-KEES-WOAS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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