And here's a street by De Chirico

Why Robyn Hitchcock loves De Chirico?

Maybe not a great likeness between the photos but Imagine Robyn a decade or two younger and with sunglasses. . The De Chirico painting is in the Modern Art collection at the Pompidou centre in Paris. See yesterday's Seven Songs post for a version of Robyn's wonderfully surreal song De Chirico Street

A de Chirico street and THE de Chirico street

Giorgio de Chirico was a surrealist (or is that pre-surrealist?) artist - not to everybody's taste, perhaps, but I find his work preferable to, say, Dali (which isn't saying much)


This painting is called Melancholy and Mystery of a street. You can say that it is a De Chirico Street.



This, on the other hand, is Robyn performing De Chirico Street with Deni Bonet's on her open access show "Duets with Deni". With lyrics like I was followed home by a weighing machine
On De Chirico Street It said, "What do you know?" I said, "What do you mean?" On De Chirico Street Can you go wrong?

It will be the pinnacle of my life to be able to say "Jasper this one's evil" but then I am a sad case...