painting – Maite Leon https://maiteleon.com Illustrations & art Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:56:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://maiteleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/favicon-eye-3-100x100.png painting – Maite Leon https://maiteleon.com 32 32 The Uncertain Certainty https://maiteleon.com/the-uncertain-certainty/ Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:32:06 +0000 https://maiteleon.com/?p=6970 The Uncertain Certainty, is an illustration I did, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s painting The Uncertainty of the Poet, 1913.

Born in Greece in 1888, Giorgio de Chirico was inspired by Greek mythology; arcades, statues and unrealistic perspectives are recurring themes in his paintings. Passing trains represent his father who was a railway transport engineer. The artichokes are depicted in a few of his paintings and also in Melancholy of an Afternoon, painted in the same period.

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