Pursuing Dave M's link and lead re Chirico below

[David Morris]

Strictly speaking, DeChirico was not a Surrealist, but he greatly
influenced a group of artists that were later known as Surrealists.
DeChirico's subject matter was largely classical architecture and
sculpture, abstractly rendered and reinvented.  He His anthropomorphic
figures, those that most directly precursor Surrealism's weird
creatures, are composed of fragments of buildings, sculpture and
abstract Classical forms.  He is most famous for his desolate
cityscapes with long dark shadows suggestive of a setting sun, always
"off screen."  These piazzas and streetscapes all are directly
influenced by his visits to Florence, Milan, and Turin.

Regarding the article below, I've never heard any notion that there
were anything like the "laws of Surrealism."  Surrealism cherished
world without laws where the irrational was the norm.  If there were
anything resembling laws, they would be better known as "anti-laws."
Salvidor Dali once said his method :

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active
paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion to the
total discrediting of the world of reality"

David Morris

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Volume 24, Number 3 (1999)
>
> INTRUDING WORLDS AND THE EPILEPTIC WORD: PYNCHON'S DIALOGUE WITH THE
> LAWS OF SURREALISM AND NEW PHYSICS
>
> KATHLEEN IUDICELLO
>
>
> I learn that Chirico has another famous picture called "nostalgia of the infinite"....!
>