DE CHIRICO'S INFLUENCE
(1888-1978)

De Chirico influenced
the Neo Classical,
Baroque and Rococo
and in the metaphysical realm
of philosophy:
Schopenhaur
and Frederich Nietzche
in comedy and mystery
among the female torso
in honor or horror
of a bourgeois little man
in a male bowler hat,
learning to discern
that classical architecture
in Turin and Milan
painting domes, pyramids
or origami
and influencing five star movies
by Antonioni, and in Zurlini's
"Desert of the Tartars"
in visiting his friends
from Paris; from Magritte
who became a designer
after viewing a paper factory
in his evocative and poetic
"Song of Love"
or the relaxed painting
 "The Grail Metaphysical Interior"
after meeting Yves Tanguy
Max Ernst , Balthus,
or Salvador Dali
finding his "New Objectivity"
for prisms in his more orthodox
style by the rocks
of Greece or Italy
in his "Magic Realism"
as being enriched
by the"Futurists"
like Umberto Boccioni,
Giacomo Balla or Marinetti
with his "Manchini"
of faceless mannequins
dress making
or working with textiles
in new style for strings,
encompassing as a painter
while working on "The Seer,"
meeting Carlo Carrra,
Morandi, Max Klinger
doing enigmatic landscapes
and shapes of  contrary interiors,
enjoying Jean Cocteau's
indoor ballet designs,
knowing the innovative poets
as the literary path outlines
of Ashbery and Sylvia Plath.