Critics' picks - arts Nov 27, 2008
Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Ren. Magritte, Joan Mir. (Boston Globe)
Going, going, not gone: Financial crisis crimps art Nov 6, 2008
Among the other works that sold Wednesday was a painting by Greek-Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. The 1914 oil on canvas, "Composition Metaphysique," went for $6. (CNN -- US)
Through reality's lens, decisively Sep 7, 2008
Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso. The exhibition also includes photographs from Brassa. (Boston Globe)
In Memoriam: Anne d'Harnoncourt Jun 4, 2008
Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne (2002-03). Degas and the Dance (2003). (Suite101.com)
Melotti has retrospective in New York May 10, 2008
His work has been linked to the cagelike Surrealist constructions of Alberto Giacometti, the early wire sculptures of Lucio Fontana, the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico and even the playful mobiles of Alexander Calder. Melotti's art has appeared sporadically in group shows of Italian sculpture, but he has never had a solo exhibition in New York. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
London's 'Falling' blurs the line Mar 1, 2008
In James Macdonald's bravura staging, designer Hildegard Bechtler and lighting designer Jean Kalman give the square the eerie solidity of a Giorgio de Chirico painting. Macdonald fills it with the controlled comings and goings of 27 actors who, backstage, are racing in and out of literally hundreds of Moritz Junge's costumes. (Variety)
Modern Photography Exhibitions Dec 2, 2007
Among the Important figures from the visual arts, literature, dance, music, theatre and film (1944-2006) included are Giorgio de Chirico, , Jasper Johns, Langston Hughes, Igor Stravinsky, Truman Capote, Woody Allen, Louise Bourgeois, Rudolf Nureyev and Simone de Beauvoir. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY USA: January 18-April 13, 2008. (Suite101.com)
GMOA exhibit focuses on scenes in nature Nov 13, 2007
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'Apocalypse' comes to the Vatican Oct 20, 2007
Among the artists on display are El Greco, Salvador Dali and Giorgio de Chirico. Another of the exhibits includes Byzantine and Russian icons, including one of the vision of the Apocalypse from the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos, the Greek island where St. John wrote the last book of the Bible. (MSNBC -- Travel)
University scholars receive distinguished, named professorships Sep 21, 2007
He also has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on the work of such artists as Delacroix, Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico and Willem de Kooning. Ubl joins the Chicago faculty after serving as an assistant professor of art history at the University of Basel and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
The art of giving Sep 3, 2007
Apart from Packer's sandstone Buddha, the gallery recently announced the purchase of a work by the surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, valued at about $4 million. It also acquired an important painting by Clifford Possum - snapped up at auction for $2. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Enlightened gift offers chance to see human face of Buddha Aug 29, 2007
Yesterday's acquisition announcement comes a week after the gallery unveiled a work by the surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, thought to be worth $4 million. It joins Max Ernst's largest sculpture and Clifford Possum's $2. (Sydney Morning Herald)
NGA takes the biscuit, for surreal Aug 23, 2007
La Mort d'un esprit [Death of a spirit] dated 1916, a painting by European Modernist artist Giorgio de Chirico, was unveiled yesterday by director Ron Radford. The painting, one of the last privately held early de Chirico works of art, was bought from a Belgian collector in London earlier this year with the help of donors. (The Canberra Times)
Australian gallery buys early de Chirico painting Aug 21, 2007
- Australia's national art gallery unveiled a newly acquired pre-Surrealist painting by Greek-Italian master Giorgio de Chirico on Monday, but refused to say how much it paid for the work. The small painting "La Mort d'un Esprit," or "Death of a Spirit," focuses on two biscuits on a bright orange panel and was painted by de Chirico in 1916. (Reuters.uk)
* Cooling off at MoMA on a summer's day Aug 2, 2007
Giorgio de Chirico was most likely studio-bound the summer he finished Great Metaphysical Interior (1917), a dark, suffocated picture consisting mostly of a setup of easels coming to life in a sort of Sorcerer's Apprentice fantasy. Right in the center, though, like an open window, is a painting within the painting, a view of a lakeside house or hotel in a lush garden landscape. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The source of hard, cold cash behind the surreal Jul 4, 2007
The work of Giorgio de Chirico and Joan Miro is followed by Andre Masson's designs for Les Presages, which is soon to be revived by the Australian Ballet in Melbourne and Sydney. I found the final of the six exhibition themes, Displaying the Body, to be the most intriguing, with its ruby lips and starfish brooches by Dali and Dali's extraordinary object, Venus de Milo with Drawers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Woodbury Surrealist Revisited by the Mattatuck Apr 27, 2007
There, she saw a work by the Surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) that launched her interest in the style. After both fled Europe for the United States at the onset of World War II, they married in Reno, Nev. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
- Robert Hughes on Surrealism Mar 24, 2007
The romantic sexuality of surrealism expressed itself most frequently in one of its key images, the fashion dummy - not a statue, not a person, but a curiously haunting thing that carried reminiscences of high art - Giorgio de Chirico, whose piazzas and slanting shadows were haunted by these ambiguous manikins, was another of surrealism's adopted ancestors. The use of mannequins covered a lot of territory, and a startling variety of moods. (Guardian Unlimited)
De Chirico: Painting landscapes of the mind Feb 10, 2007
Moderna Museet, Stockholm A 1914 portrait of Giorgio de Chirico's father as he appeared to the artist in his dreams and nightmares ... PADUA, Italy: Giorgio de Chirico set himself the unusual goal of "painting that which cannot be seen." The upshot was Metaphysical Art, which sought to reflect strange and elusive psychological landscapes, fugitive states of mind and to capture "the eternity of the moment" in physical form, in paint. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Painting a picture of Puerto Rico's early masters in Mi Puerto Rico'' show at Worcester Art Museum Jan 4, 2007
One of green coconuts accented by twisting vines has a strangely monumental and almost surrealistic look that Giorgio de Chirico surely would have appreciated. Oller enjoyed considerable critical success during stays in France and Spain, but in his later years in Puerto Rico he was so poor he had to use found pieces of lumber to paint on. (Boston Globe)
