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DIED. Giorgio de Chirico, 90, Italian painter, whose early surrealist works helped define 20th century art; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...painter Giorgio de Chirico died of a heart attack in Rome last week. He was 90, and his death removed one of the last connections between our day and the formative years of modern art. Nearly all who created the modernist vocabulary between 1900 and 1930 are dead. Four remain: Marc Chagall, 91; Joan Mird, 85; Sonia Delaunay, 93; and Salvador Dali, 74. None have produced much work of consequence in recent years; posterity will not have time for late Chagall or post-1939 Dali. Nevertheless, De Chirico's career was so uneven as to have been unique. His impact...
...significance to his art. He treated painting with the moral seriousness that Russians traditionally assigned to music or the novel. By art, he hoped, one is set free. The only art that could provide a model for life was the sublime. In that sense, Rothko was the last romantic painter, the heir to Turner or Caspar David Friedrich...
...past two decades he has been a leader in the drive to create artificial intelligence through computer technology. Says he: "My mind works according to laws and mechanisms, not some mysterious mind fluid." In his 29 years at CMU, Simon has proved a talented administrator and teacher. A painter and pianist, Simon also served on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Lyndon Johnson...
Another insightful juxtaposition is that of David Smith's sketches with several pieces of his sculpture. Originally trained as a painter, Smith later concentrated on sculpture. Smith the sculptor, however, never quite lost his painter's orientation. His pieces, as a result, most always retain a reference to a frame and therefore the works do not always function as truly three-dimensional pieces. Such is his "Detroit Queen", an enchanting bronze creature whom Smith composed from auto parts...