Chirico
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
Sam Chirico said she’s still experiencing a rash that her doctors call chemical dermatitis.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Auras of migraine and epilepsy may have influenced a long list of artists, including Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Giorgio de Chirico, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat.
From Scientific American • May 26, 2023
The lonely facelessness of the facades evokes the paintings of de Chirico and Hopper; lurking staircases nod to the winding labyrinths of M.C.
From New York Times • May 7, 2023
“You are talking to Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint—for short, Abel.”
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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