{"id":7310,"date":"2007-11-30T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T20:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2021-07-27T21:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:47:35","slug":"happy-place-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7310","title":{"rendered":"Giorgio de Chirico"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t quite say these make me “happy”- but I can say that ever since I encountered de Chirico’s stuff, in my Humanities class in high school, I have been fascinated by it. it’s got its hooks in me. I find it scary – like a terrible dream – but I can’t look away. There’s something monotonous about it all – he always has the same elements: — an approaching train (sometimes all you can see is the smoke coming into the “frame), elongated shadows, huge piazzas, some kind of Roman classical statuary – fragments – long distances – I don’t know. I just love his stuff. It reminds me of something. Maybe Sylvia Plath’s later poems, with the visions of statuary – and “bald mannequins” in Munich – those creepy un-populated landscapes.<\/p>\n


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Place M\u00c3\u00a9taphysique Italienne <\/em>1921<\/p>\n

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Ariadne<\/em>, 1913<\/p>\n

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Delights of the Poet <\/em>1913<\/p>\n

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Melancholy<\/em><\/p>\n

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Melancolie Hermetique<\/em>, c.1918<\/p>\n

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Melancholy and Mystery of the Street, 1914 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Song of Love<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Nostalgia of the Infinite,<\/em>1913-14<\/p>\n

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The Conquest of the Philosopher<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nHere’s a gallery of his work.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ooh – and here’s another nice one<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t quite say these make me “happy”- but I can say that ever since I encountered de Chirico’s stuff, in my Humanities class in high school, I have been fascinated by it. it’s got its hooks in me. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088],"tags":[1514,2215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169707,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions\/169707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}