Word: chiricos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paramount Studio Hollywood Confusing Sirs: In the Dec. 14 issue of TIME, on p. 60, col. 3, under Art, you state that "there is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies. ..." In the Dec. 14 issue of LIFE, on p. 27, under the reproduction of The Sailors' Barracks, by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico, is the remark that "The colonnade is her trademark." Now, admitting that de Chirico is Italian, an artist, and interested in horses and colonnades, I am curious to know whether...
Giorgio de Chirico...
...esthetic, while others are merely frivolous daubers and assemblers of miscellaneous junk. Nevertheless, one thing almost all surrealists have in common is an instinct for dramatic titles. Thumbing through the catalog last week gallery goers lifted eye brows at the following items : Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (de Chirico...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...
Walking up & down the lines of monumental canvases, critics felt that modern Italian painting had not yet shaken off its shroud. Artists included Giorgio ("Horses") de Chirico, whose work is more frequently identified with Paris than with Rome; Playwright Luigi Pirandello's son Fausto; and the pride of Bologna, Giorgio Morandi, who ponders life so deeply that in his 46 years he has produced less than 20 pictures, most of them still lifes of bottles, candlesticks, tea cups...