Word: chiricos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another group highlighted the early work of Italy's only remaining first-rank painter: Giorgio de Chirico. The aging genius, who long ago ditched surrealism to imitate dead masters, was embarrassed, not pleased by the honor. He angrily sued the Biennial Committee for displaying his earlier indiscretions (which vastly outshine what he has done since). It was all part of a dirty plot to encourage the "commercial maneuvers" of the big art dealers, he said. He also wrote a letter to the press declaring that "It is simply ridiculous and injurious to call 'art' all these miscarriages...
...wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...your Aug. 26 issue, you report the latest gunfire from a man who seems determined to assassinate one of the most brilliant youths in the history of recent art. The man is Georgio de Chirico, living Italian painter; his intended victim is himself as a young...
...Chirico Y. Chirico...
Perhaps even Chirico could not be sure which of the Galerie Allard's paintings were Chiricos. His own guesstimate of his output is "between two and three thousand canvases." But whether or not some of his early paintings were counterfeit, critics infinitely preferred them to his recent products. Chirico, who once led the parade along with Picasso and Matisse, had run out of gas long ago. Now all he could do was blow his horn...