My paper intends to determine how the aforementioned disease was also a concrete source of inspiration and revelation, furthermore my study aims at highlighting how this disease increased the already voluminous ego of the painter along with his conviction of alleged divinatory or initiatory powers. This “higher or parallel dimension perceived only by him”, ended up nourishing that purely elitist character that the Pictor Optimus automatically attributed to his figure, both artistically and existentially. As a consequence, the artist, who was also deeply influenced by the Nietzsche’s notion of the Übermensch, believed to possess alleged powers of perception-intuition. The latter, were sometimes mistaken for true reality as De Chirico was totally unaware of his disease. During his life the painter suffered from various health disorders, however, one of them somehow helped him in reaching his artistic goal: the migraine aura and its consequent hallucinations. to look at the world “as if it were the first time”. Overall, Nietzsche ushered in a picture of the world that De Chirico has wholeheartedly shared, however, in the light of his disorder, the empathy went even further and this is the noteworthy aspect this paper aims at underscoring.ĭe Chirico’s Metaphysical art aimed at admiring (then painting) the world in its quintessence, i.e. This ailment, affecting the fragile border amid perceived reality and hallucinated reality, turned out to be a remarkable source of inspiration which boosted the visions and the enigmas the artist was entwined with. The philosopher suffered since his very childhood from severe migraine and then from a psychiatric illness with depression while the painter unknowingly suffered from migraine aura. This paper sheds light onto some crucial kinships between the two characters as not only philosophical concerns are vital but illness too. Grappling with “the world seen for the first time” De Chirico’s narrative doesn’t depict reality rather its ghost, the latter is seen by dint of revelations and hallucinations. Giorgio De Chirico definitely stands out as a peculiar character of the Italian Novecento and his art ties directly with Nietzsche’s philosophy whose eternal questions paved the way to his “immanent metaphysics” which is typified and pervaded by an ever-present melancholia brought about by a heightened awareness of the death of God.
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