de Chirico

Betraying none of the original narrative and only the most streamlined, modern vision of a classical arcade and deserted, raking piazza, de Chirico's painting and especially his Ariadne, frozen in stony silence, powerfully convey the wistful, elegiac aura that the memory of the antique could summon in a contemporary setting.

A Dialogue Across Centuries Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique J.

A Dialogue Across Centuries Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

There are also a few excellent paintings by Léger in addition to a mixed bag of works by de Chirico, whose art goes into decline in the late 1920s.

Edward Goldman: In These Gods We Trust Edward Goldman 2011

Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique

Edward Goldman: In These Gods We Trust Edward Goldman 2011

It is typical of the inventiveness of the museum's approach that the second picture, one of the "enigmas" that followed that conviction, isn't by de Chirico, but a copy by Max Ernst. As with all the exhibitions, the show offers interactive experiments, including theater workshops, concerts and a "dreaming website."

Florence's Catalyst for Change Andrew McKie 2010

It is typical of the inventiveness of the museum's approach that the second picture, one of the "enigmas" that followed that conviction, isn't by de Chirico, but a copy by Max Ernst. As with all the exhibitions, the show offers interactive experiments, including theater workshops, concerts and a "dreaming website."

Florence's Catalyst for Change Andrew McKie 2010

It is typical of the inventiveness of the museum's approach that the second picture, one of the "enigmas" that followed that conviction, isn't by de Chirico, but a copy by Max Ernst. As with all the exhibitions, the show offers interactive experiments, including theater workshops, concerts and a "dreaming website."

Florence's Catalyst for Change Andrew McKie 2010

It is typical of the inventiveness of the museum's approach that the second picture, one of the "enigmas" that followed that conviction, isn't by de Chirico, but a copy by Max Ernst. As with all the exhibitions, the show offers interactive experiments, including theater workshops, concerts and a "dreaming website."

Florence's Catalyst for Change Andrew McKie 2010

At the end of her life several portraits of her hung over her sofa in her Rio apartment, including one by de Chirico, painted in war-torn Italy when de Chirico needed money and Lispector was still a young diplomat's wife.

The Brazilian Sphinx Moore, Lorrie 2009

An Italian by origin, but born in Greece in 1888 and schooled there, de Chirico produced a series of Cretan paintings, focusing on the figure of Ariadne set within a bleak and troubling modernist landscape.

Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery Beard, Mary 2009