Look at this circa 1916 painting by italian painter giorgio de chirico, titled the disquieting muses. explain how this painting exemplifies surrealism.

The poetic sensibility of this painting and its unreality of magical character characterizes this artistic current.

Explanation:

De Chirico presents his works as a reality that is beyond the physical world we know. A kind of dream where clear symbols appear: statues, dummies, articulated dolls, classical architecture, trains and factory chimneys. Dehumanized and full of solitude scenarios.

De Chirico is obsessed with the enigmatic, the disturbing, the mysterious of all those everyday things that are so obvious and reasonable to us.

In this picture, both the disturbing muses (which would be Talía and Melpómene, muses of comedy and tragedy) and Apollo, lack life, seem to be part of the props of a dream play, as absurd as reality.