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Word: quodaenigma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloud on the horizon, lit by the sun that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric-blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma es/?(What shall I love if not the enigma?)-this question, inscribed by the young artist on his self-portrait in 1911, is their subtext...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Enigmas of De Chirico | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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