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When he was a young fellow, Italy's Giorgio de Chirico (pronounced keerico) was a red-hot surrealist and an inspiration to other radicals of the easel like Salvador Dali. Most of his favorite themes-the melancholy shadows of late afternoon, the animated manikins, the colonnades and lonely figures in otherwise deserted squares-have since become standard surrealist props...
...sour and old-fashioned 60, De Chirico loathes surrealism, deplores his own sparkling past. In London last week for an exhibition of his conservative new paintings, he gave a lecture backing up everything that Royal Academician Sir Alfred Munnings had said about modern art the week before (TIME, May 9). Echoed De Chirico...
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...