dalí 101: an introduction
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dalí 101: an introduction
denver botanic gardens docents
peter tushfeb 9, 2021
Denver Botanical Gardens, April 10 Aug. 22, 2021
Exhibition of nearly 40 works mixing motifs two series of prints, FlorDalí and Surrealist Flowers,
Catalonia and the intriguing images of his Surrealist works.
Salvador Dalí
May 11, 1904 January 28, 1989
goal for this talk:
1. establish love of his landscape
2. briefly look at the two botanical print suites
3. introduce dalí his art, ideas, and life,
from the st. petersburg collection
1. love of his costa brava landscape
grandiose geological
Dalí declared that his Catalan homeland was "by
far the most beautiful place in the world."
His art responds to this Mediterranean delirium
the jagged Costa Brava, the dreamlike beaches, the
rolling valleys, the awe-inspiring Pyrenees.
2. botanical print suites: flordalí, 1968
Flordalí was inspired by French and German botanical illustrators from the 17th-19th Centuries, including
Basilius Besler, Georg Ehret, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Flordalí, 196810 photolithographs with drypoint etching and embossing
Published by Jean Schneider, Basel, and Michelle Broutta, Paris
Rose (Rose Papilio)
1968
Lys (Lilium musicum)
(Lily)
1968
Marguerite (Chrysanthemum
frutescens)
1968
2. botanical print suites: flordalí - les fruits, 1969-70
Flordalí - Les Fruits1969
12 photolithographs of original gouaches painted on printed illustrations +
original engraving;
Published by Jean Schneider, Basel
Cerises Pierrot(Cherries)
1969
Prunier hâtif(Plum)
1969
Pamplemousseérotique
(Grapefruit)
1969
3. dalí: art, ideas, life
setting the stage: the morses
A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse,
Founders
This Dalí Museum opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, January 11, 2011
This Dalí Museum currently has approximately 80 active docents
A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse,
Founders
origins
Figueres, Spain, located on the
Ampurdan plain in the Spanish
province of Gerona
father & mother just after
their wedding, 1900
Felipa DomènechFerrés
& Salvador Dalí Cusí
The first born Dalí son:
Salvador Galo Anselmo Dalí (October 12, 1901 -
August 1, 1903)
He died as a 22 month old toddler from upper respiratory illness
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech
Born May 11, 1904Figueres, Spain
1908:
Anna Maria, is born.
The family purchases a summer home in Cadaqués on the Mediterranean Costa Brava
Dalí often declared that his homeland was "by far the most beautiful place in the world."
View of Cadaqués with
Shadow of Mount Pani
1917
Self-Portrait (Figueres)
1921
madridart school, new
ideas, new friends
The Residencia
des Estudiantes,
Madrid
Federico Garcia Lorca poet,
& Luis Buñuel filmmaker
Interpretation of Dreams,
published 1900; trans. Spanish 1924
Cadaqués
1923
Femme Couchée,(Figure on the
Rocks)
1926
Oil on panel
The Basket of Bread
1926
Francesco de Zurbaran:Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and Rose, 1633
hand-painted dream photographs
Apparatus and Hand
1927
Luis Buñuel, circa 1928 Portrait of Luis Buñuel, 1924
Sigmund Freud in his studioAmerican silent film star
Buster Keaton: "The Great Stone Face"
paris, surrealism, symbols & gala
First Days of Spring
1929
Man Ray: The Surrealist Group, Paris, 1930:L to R: Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Hans Arp,
Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel, Man Ray
Helena DiakanoffDevulina
"Gala" Dalí
Born in Kazan, Russia
August 26, 1894June 12, 1982
father issues, melting watches,
millet
Salvador Dalí
The Average Bureaucrat
1930
Persistence of Memory, 1931, MOMA
Cullero of Cape Creus
Jean-Francois Millet
The Angelus
1855-57
For Dalí, the female figure's posture is "...symbolic of the
exhibitionistic eroticism of a virgin
in waiting, the position before the
act of aggression such as that of a
praying mantis prior to her cruel coupling
with the male that will end with his
death."
Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus, 1933-35
fashion, objects, freud
1936: Dalí becomes an international
celebrity:
Man Ray photo of Dalí on cover of Time magazine,
December 14, 1936
Dalí with Coco Chanel
1937
Elsa Schiaparelli &Salvador Dalí
Evening dress with lobster print, 1937Red and white silk
organza
Cecil Beaton photo:Wallis Simpson in
Lobster Dress
Three Young Surrealist Women
Holding in Their Arms The
Skins of An Orchestra
1936
Lip Sofa (Saliva Sofa), 1936
Lobster Telephone
1936
1936 lecture in deep sea
diving suit
In July, 1938, Dalí finally
meets Freud
double images
Slave Market with the
Disappearing Bust of
Voltaire
1940
features formed by two Dutch women in
the archway
On June 10, the French government fled Paris, first to Tours and then, on June 14, to Bordeaux. Germany and France sign an
armistice on June 22, when Bordeaux falls.
dalí in america 1940-1948
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
1942
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth
of the New Man
1943
Dalí's comparative table of artists from 50 Secrets of
Magic Craftsmanship
179 Vermeer
176 Raphael
173 Velazquez
168 Leonardo
148 Dalí
105 Picasso
85 Ingres
47 Meissonier
37 Manet
29 Bouguereau
6 Mondrian
Dalí with Alfred Hitchcock
discussing dream
sequence of Spellbound,
1945
For the dream sequence, Dalí
delivered the requisite
melting clocks, slit eyeballs,
deep shadows, and long vistas
Dalí with Walt Disney in Port
Lligat
She is a ballerina who transforms into a dandelion
Key double image sequence of Destino, 1946
the bomb & nuclear mysticism
Atomic explosion
1945
Atomic model showing the nucleus composed of protons
and neutrons surrounded by
orbiting electrons.
Harold Edgerton: Milk Drop Coronet;
Stroboscopic image, 1936
Dalí's stylized signature adopted Edgerton's image
Leda Atomica
1947-49
Philippe Halsman
Dalí Atomicus
1948
return to spain; jewels, catholicism,
large canvases
villa in
Port Lligat
Eye of Time brooch, 1949
(platinum, ruby and diamonds)
Ruby Lips brooch, 1949
Slumber with a key: In his 50 Secrets, Dalí illustrates his simple invention using
a key and a tin plate to help a person remember
their dreams.
Dalí demonstrates his new invention,
the Ovocipède, in 1959
Christ of St. John of the
Cross
1952
heisenberg & geometry
Nuclear Mysticism
"Today the exterior world that of physics
has transcended the one of psychology. [Instead
of Freud,] my father today is Dr. Heisenberg."
- Dalí, Anti-Matter Manifesto, 1958
Nature MorteVivante
(Still Life-Fast Moving)
1956
Floris van Schooten (Dutch, 1590 - 1655):Table with Food, 1617, Private Collection
Page from Matila
Geometry of Art & Life
art of bullfighting
The Hallucinogenic Toreador
1968-70
The inspiration for the illusion: a box of
pencils
The
face: from study to canvas
Dalmatian and Dalmatian by Ronald C. James
a museum, lincoln & perception
Dalí in the Teatro Museo Dalíduring construction
Teatro Museo Dalí with geodesic dome and Torre Galatea
Mae West room from the side with Lip Sofa
Dalí read Leon article, "Recognition of Faces,"
in a 1973 issue of Scientific American.
It demonstrated how the mind fills in missing visual information to
help recognize familiar forms.
Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea
Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of
Abraham Lincoln (Homage to Rothko)
(second version)
1976
passing
On January 23, 1989, Salvador Dalí died in a hospital in
Figueres
from heart failure and respiratory
complications
Under this slab, under the Geodesic dome, is the tomb of Dalí, the Marqués de Dalí de Púbol.
Epitaph:
someday I die, though it may never happen, I hope that
the people in the cafes in Figueres will
say, 'Dalí has died, but not entirely
- Dalí
April 10 Aug. 22, 2021
Enjoy the Dalí
botanical exhibition!
Thank you