Word: chiricos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single building, but at the proper distance its doors and windows spell the artist's name and its eaves the date. Jokes all, they are. and technically indebted to other painters. Ramapo Hills owes flagrant credit to Franz Marc, Le Pont Neuf to Giorgio de Chirico, Kiki to Modigliani, others to Braque. Léger, Picasso and Magritte. Yet they have much beyond mockery that is their own: enough original sensitivity and so abundant a measure of spontaneity that it almost begins not to matter that the method is imprecise or the execution slapdash. There is gimmickry...
...pictures are more rewarding. Most have the amateurish quality one expects, but several are surprisingly good. Three powerful portraits and an interesting still-life vaguely reminiscent of Chirico's work, all painted by a Norfolk prisoner, need no apologies at all. And several sketches of President Kennedy display perhaps the slickest, if most mechanical, technique in the show. But the general profusion of romantic, often garishly-colored outdoor scenes will probably interest the psychologist more than the art critic. It would be unrealistic to ignore the flaws in the prisoners' work but equally unrealistic to ignore the conditions under which...
Time after time, De Chirico publicly labeled works signed with his name as spurious and got them "sequestered"-a legal action whereby police seize a painting until a court can judge its authenticity...
Wonderfully Disgraceful. The newest De Chirico malediction involved Milan's respected Brera Galleria, which last week put up for sale 248 examples of modern art that included six De Chiricos, two of them in his metaphysical style. Strolling through the exhibit before the sale, white-thatched De Chirico, now 72. was spotted by an attendant who asked: "Maestro, if you were on a sinking ship with these six paintings, vhich one would you save?" "I'd save them all," replied the maestro, and promptly went about "saving...
...only authentic thing about it, said De Chirico, was the signature; he insisted that the rest of it had been overpainted on one of his neoclassic efforts by some art faker...