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Pale, stooped Georgio de Chirico is one of the best known surrealistic painters of the School of Paris. Artist de Chirico is a realist as well as a surrealist. He ekes out his income with commissions for fashion illustrations, magazine covers. Art-lovers who flocked to a fancy Fifth Avenue address last week to see de Chirico's latest work, found themselves in a tailor shop...
...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...
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...
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...