Giorgio de Chirico

One of the greatest Surrealist painters, de Chirico produced eerie masterpieces like these (strangely hosted at the Maths and Computer Science Department of California State University; somebody there knows a good thing) and these at the de Chirico Foundation. de Chirico was actually making these paintings before the First World War, whereas the Surrealists got together in the 1920s. He later painted much more traditional pictures, not very well.