I took this shot of the old train station at Daegok the other day, just north of here.
But wow, it came out looking like a spiritual cousin of something out of Giorgio de Chirico's studio!
Rather like Arnold Böcklin (see below) with his "Isle of the Dead" paintings, de Chirico executed a number of versions of this dreamlike, oddly disquieting image ("Piazza d'Italia") and others in a similar vein in the early years of the 20th century. Also called "Pittura Metafisica" in Italian, de Chirico's works (and also those of Carlo Carra) from this period are translated into English as "Metaphysical Art".
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