Art Blog Post 4

• De Chirico’s

• Does Italy

• Got a lot of brown in it

• Does A lot of buildings and people

• Tracey Tawhiao

• Maori Artworks

• Colorful

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before world war 1, he

founded the Scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most

well-known works often feature the Roman Arcades, Long Shadows, Mannequins, Trains, and illogical

perspectives. Because he is Italian he does a lot of artwork in the country Italy only because he is from

there. But the artwork he does has a lot of the color brown in it and also he does buildings and people.

The paint that Giorgio De Chirico used was Metaphysical paint. Metaphysical painting, style of painting

that flourished mainly between 1911 and 1920 in the works of the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and

Carlo Carra. These painters used representational but incongruous imagery to produce disquieting effects on the viewer.

Tracey Tawhiao is a prolific artist with a wide range of creative expressions including poetry, painting,

performance, and filmmaking. She is well known for using newspapers as the basis of her practice,

obscuring passages of the text with block colors and Maori symbols and motifs, Whilst highlighting short

headlines or individual words. Tawhiao's artistic practice arose from the time spent with her grandparents at

their Matakana Island home. The walls were covered in newspapers and Tawhiao's idea to brighten the

place up was to apply symbols and images directly to the walls. This close connection to the text

highlighted her negativity implicit in the headlines. Tracey does Maori artwork because she is Maori

and loves her Maori culture. For the paintings, she makes them colorful and uses the Maori design to

represent her culture.