biography
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Chirico, Giorgio de
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pronunciation:
[kireekoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1978)
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| biography:
| Artist, born in Volos, Greece. He studied at Athens and Munich, working later in Paris, and with Carrà in Italy. About 1910 he began to produce a series of dreamlike pictures of deserted squares, which had considerable influence on the Surrealists. His whole style after 1915 is often called ‘metaphysical painting’, including semi-abstract geometric figures and stylized horses. In the 1930s he reverted to an academic style. |
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