Word: chirican
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...adopted its strategies wholesale. The "illusionist" painters among them, Dali, Ernst, Tanguy and Magritte, all came out of early De Chirico, a lineage astutely discussed by Laura Rosenstock in the catalogue; and as another contributor, Wieland Schmied, points out, German painters in the '20s like George Grosz used Chirican motifs to express their vision of an estranged urban world in social dislocation...
...Jewish Angel, 1916, certainly influenced Max Ernst. Just as certainly, they came out of the cubist sculpture De Chirico saw all over the Paris studios after 1912. De Chirico is often said to have used Renaissance space in his pictures, but, as Rubin points out, this is a myth. Chirican perspective was not meant to set the viewer in a secure, measurable space. It was a means of distorting the view and disquieting the eye. Instead of one vanishing-point in his architectonic masterpiece, The Melancholy of Departure, 1914, there are six, none "correct." This cloning of viewpoints acts...
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