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DIED. Giorgio de Chirico, 90, Italian painter, whose early surrealist works helped define 20th century art; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...painter Giorgio de Chirico died of a heart attack in Rome last week. He was 90, and his death removed one of the last connections between our day and the formative years of modern art. Nearly all who created the modernist vocabulary between 1900 and 1930 are dead. Four remain: Marc Chagall, 91; Joan Mird, 85; Sonia Delaunay, 93; and Salvador Dali, 74. None have produced much work of consequence in recent years; posterity will not have time for late Chagall or post-1939 Dali. Nevertheless, De Chirico's career was so uneven as to have been unique. His impact...
...blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?this, in Steinberg's ironic eye, is the American dream street (our equivalent of the Di Chirico piazza, repository of all unspoken fantasy) brought up to date from its origin in the Wild West movie...
Still, Director Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much) does much to redeem these flaws with his evocative film making style. He infuses his apartment-house setting with a threatening feeling that recalls De Chirico's art as well as the character of Fascist architecture; he floods the sound track with a blaring radio broadcast of the off-screen Hitler rally. Ultimately, A Special Day's apocalyptic atmosphere provides the perfect backdrop for its star's performance. When Antonietta seizes her moment of passion in this frigid world, Loren's warmth can-and does-burn...
...Ceramist Robert Arneson and Painter Peter Saul, are poking none-too-gentle fun at the patriotic excesses of the Bicentennial. The Brewster Gallery (1018 Madison Ave.) has a solid group of more than 50 Georges Braque etchings, aquatints and lithographs, and for fans of the Italian maestro Giorgio de Chirico, there is a large survey of his late work, 1936-1975, depressing in its self-parody, hung in the august showrooms of Wildenstein & Co. (19 E. 64th...