Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914)

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914) was painted by an Italian Surrealist Artist called Giorgio de Chirico. Giorgio de Chirico was born in 1888-1978, born at Volo in Greece.

Giorgio de Chirico has studied drawing and painting at the Athens Polytechnic 1903-6 and for eighteen months at the Munich Academy, where he discovered the work of Bocklin.

The title of this painting is 'Mystery and Melancholy of a street' the meaning of this title is, surrealism, mystery, magic, dreams, we can see that in this painting there's a young girl with a hoop and possibly a man in the distance, the title has the word melancholy in it, which means sad, does this mean the people in this street are sad and lonely? maybe there's a powerful meaning behind this, but what we see it as, isn't really what it might be, that is why the title has 'Mystery' in it, it's all hidden meaning that is for us to figure out. 

The street in this painting has been captured on an afternoon, almost sunset time, in Autumn.

Long shadows entering the street as the sun is slowly setting down, not yet a sunset, but it is clear the day will soon end. The shadows capture every movement or object in the painting, seeing as the shadows, night has already come. Two people are seen in this painting, a girl, and possibly a man in the distance, not his body is showing but his shadow, as its growing from the sunlight 

Mystery and Melancholy of a street (1914) was painted with oil paint in Italy, canvas measuring 88 x 72 cm. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street is a surreal painting, the image was painted really smoothly, also really sharp and edgy, the painting is full of beautiful warm colours, greens, yellows, whites, reds, blues, and light shades, mostly its dark as the shadow is blocking the rest of the street leaving it a dark diagonal line.