Comments on: Giorgio de Chirico

By: oakling

oakling — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:05:43 +0000

i love the idea of self-forgeries! and the idea of a movement that can officially invite people to join it. these guys were so wonderfully weird. and “disquieting” is a fantastic name for this stuff.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:38:38 +0000

Thanks, Gerry.

By: Gerry Mooney

Gerry Mooney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:05:33 +0000

Charley- informative and interesting as always. As mentioned above, art history is too often narrated as a linear progression and too many important figures that don’t fit the narrative are ignored or minimized.

Nice little essay and good thoughts on an important artist.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:30:45 +0000

Marco,

Thanks for the information about the foundation and the correction about De Chirico’s nationality. I’ve added an addendum to the post.

Other readers can find Marco Bresciani’s blog here.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:11:55 +0000

Erik, Thanks for the comment. I think some of the most interesting aspects of art history (and often some of the most interesting artists) often fall through the cracks.

Other readers should check out Erik Bongers online portfolio, which features drawings and graphics as well as pages from “Cocoon”, an in-progress grahic story.

By: Marco Bresciani

Marco Bresciani — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:55:37 +0000

Charley,

thank you for bringing the spotlight on Giorgio De Chirico, he is quite popular in Italy but I found out that even what we consider his most renowned works do not have much recognition beyond the Alps.

Giorgio De Chirico was also a talented writer, especially his memoirs are wit, funny and full of a strong, personal point of view on the European art of the early 20th century.

I don’t want to sound chauvinist but De Chirico was Italian and not Greek: he was born in Greece by Italian parents, and came back to Italy in his teens.

I suggest to visit the Giorgio De Chirico Foundation in Rome http://www.fondazionedechirico.it, created by his wife Isabella Far in the house where they lived.

By: Erik Bongers

Erik Bongers — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:24:48 +0000

Art history is so often told as a ’straight line’. As if it all happened consequetively.

And an artist’s work is so often only appreciated in the context of that ‘line’. De Chirico seems a great example of that : his ‘pre-surealism’ came too soon and his ‘realistic’ work came too late.
How silly. It makes established art history look like nothing more than the sequential recording of art fashion and hype at a given time.

So keep on bringing these great articles on the little stories that happened in the margins of the art historic line!