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Chirico

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Chi·ri·co  (kîr-k, kr-), Giorgio de 1888-1978.
Italian painter whose works are characterized by deep shadow and perspective, barren landscapes, and elements of classical architecture and sculpture.

Chirico (Italian) [ˈkiːriko]
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(Biographies / Chirico, Giorgio de (1888-1978) M, Italiannational of birth: Greek, ARTS AND CRAFTS: artist) Giorgio de (ˈdʒordʒo de). 1888-1978, Italian artist born in Greece: profoundly influenced the surrealist movement
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Noun1.Chirico - Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)


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Nevertheless, a painting like Celebes, from 1921, which is exemplary of Ernst's immediate postwar period, while too weird and formally powerful to be considered derivative, still exists comfortably within the sign-painterly style that cuts an arc from de Chirico through Magritte to Kahlo and, later, Picabia, in all of whose hands this flat-footed idiom was put to telling use.
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Besides Balanchine's, she clothed many ballets for Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, Frederick Ashton, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins, and reproduced in three dimensions the designs of some of the great artists of her time: Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Pavel Tchelitchew, Giorgio de Chirico, Isamu Noguchi, Andre Derain, Balthus, Christian Berard, Leon Bakst, Cecil Beaton, Joan Miro, and Robert Rauschenberg.
 
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