Word: chirico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose windows were so dirty "the sun never pierced their thick grey crust," and Paul Vallery, the poet, Andre Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost too many of them...
...have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary Dr. Barnes has written the foreword to the Pintos' catalog, an honor he has conferred only once before and then upon Giorgio de Chirico. His Pinto purchases were Salvatore's "Beach Group" and "Beach Scene"; Angelo's "Landscape with Crucifix"; Biagio's "Landscape in Vence." His purchases were allowed to remain in the exhibition instead of being whisked away to his mysterious museum...
...earliest Surrealistes, in advance of the movement proper, were Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernest, Paul Klee, and Joan Miro. Chirico's early neo-classic landscapes were more truly landscapes, for the shadows were thrown towards the sun, the sky was perhaps green, and a more than natural poignancy was continually attested by these imperceptible distortions. Besides being a "Surrealiste" Chirico was a master of painting, and continued painting until past the inception of the full-fledged school. Max Ernest, independent of the school, matures day by day in his own inimitable lyricism. The verdict of time will undoubtedly confirm...
Works of the following artists will be shown: Pierre Roy, Chirico, Picasso, Coetean, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Masson, Mire, and Viollier...
...individual works which illustrate this thesis have been selected from among the great contemporary masters. Braque, di Chirico, and Gris are some of the names on the list. Although the emphasis of the exhibition will be kept on contemporary painting and sculpture, a fourteenth century Siennese Madonna, Russian Icons, and Negro sculpture will also be shown...