Khan Academy: Giorgio De Chirico, "The Anxious Journey"

Giorgio deChirico's 1913 painting, "The Anxious Journey." was a breakthrough year for Giorgio deChirico. In October of 1913, a critic and champion of Avent Garde art, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote about his experience of deChirico's paintings. He remarked on these painting's absolutely modern quality and then on their strangely metaphysical character. deChirico makes you think about how painting can be not about a reality perceived, but about a reality imagined. They are a series of architectural arcades arranged in a space used to construct a plausible representation of a believable negotiable space. [2:38]