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After a stint in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Brice settled down in earnest to his own painting. He was fascinated by Cezanne, by "the animal aspect of form in Courbet," by De Chirico, Gris, Braque and Picasso. But perhaps the most dominant influence was the rocks, hills and floral imagery of the place where he lived-Mulholland Drive, on the crest of the range that stands between the San Fernando Valley and the Los Angeles Basin...
Pink & Sapphire. As critic, Soby wrote the first U.S. book on surrealism and neoromanticism, then turned out a study of Italian Painter Giorgio de Chirico that Alfred Barr calls "the best monograph on a living artist." His own nine De Chiricos are probably as good as anything the artist ever turned out. Yet it is hard to say they are the best of the collection...
...Richard Oelze with buildings and people that look as if they had been submerged in water for years. There were wooden moons and seas by Max Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
...photography, that deepen its mood of terror and melodrama. Bergman's regular designer, P.A. Lundgren, has placed a surrealistic sequence near the film's end, in a claustrophobic attic stacked with canvasses, sculptures, and decayed bits of ornate furniture--an achievement that would have pleased the young de Chirico...
From those early years on, Italian painting fluctuated wildly between violence and serenity. Even as the futurist wave gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta...