El surrealismo soy yo.

adsertoris: Salvador Dalí photographed by Philippe Halsman...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:35:18 -0400

Salvador Dalí photographed by Philippe Halsman during the making of In Voluptas Mors, 1951.

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In 1941 Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, a bucket of thrown water, and Salvador Dalí in mid air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí’s work Leda Atomica which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats. Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts to be satisfied with the result. Halsman and Dali eventually released a compendium of their collaborations in the 1954 book Dali’s Mustache, which features 36 different views of the artist’s distinctive mustache.

Another famous collaboration between the two was In Voluptas Mors, a surrealistic portrait of Dali beside a large skull, in fact a tableau vivant composed of seven nudes. Halsman took three hours to arrange the models according to a sketch by Dali.^[2] A version of In Voluptas Mors was used subtly in the poster for the film The Silence of The Lambs, and recreated in a poster for the film The Descent.

"The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:58:33 -0400

“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”

- Salvador Dali (via woodysblues)

divinedali: Dalí!

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:42:15 -0400

divinedali:

Dalí!

"So little of what could happen does happen."

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:38:39 -0400

“So little of what could happen does happen.”

- Salvador Dalí (via anabundanceofquotes)

Dali with “Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon”,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:20:16 -0400

Dali with “Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon”, 1941

Dalí sketching Laurence Olivier.

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:40:56 -0400

Dalí sketching Laurence Olivier.

"Bad taste is creative. It’s the predominance of biology over intelligence.It is good taste, and good..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:20:24 -0400

“Bad taste is creative. It’s the predominance of biology over intelligence.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”

- Salvador Dalí

artpedia: Salvador Dali - Olive Trees. Landscape at Cadaqués,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:40:27 -0400

artpedia:

Salvador Dali - Olive Trees. Landscape at Cadaqués, c.1922.
Oil on canvas.

artpedia: Salvador Dali - Self-Portrait in the Studio, c 1919....

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:20:23 -0400

artpedia:

Salvador Dali - Self-Portrait in the Studio, c 1919. Oil on canvas.

Here, have some early Dalí!

"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:40:28 -0400

“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”

- Salvador Dalí

Photo

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:22:00 -0400

artpedia: Salvador Dalí - Soft Construction with Boiled Beans:...

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:20:00 -0400

artpedia:

Salvador Dalí - Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War, 1936.
Oil on canvas

Everyone who has ever tried painting with oil colours must understand how fucking talented this guy was.

Gets me speechless.

artpedia: Salvador Dalí - Mountain Lake, 1938. Oil on...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:41:42 -0400

artpedia:

Salvador Dalí - Mountain Lake, 1938. Oil on canvas

From the Tate Gallery, London:

Mountain Lake demonstrates Dalí’s use of the multiple image: the lake can simultaneously be seen as a fish. By such doubling he sought to challenge rationality. The painting combines personal and public references. His parents visited this lake after the death of their first child, also called Salvador. Dalí seems to have been haunted by the death of his namesake brother whom he never knew. The disconnected telephone brings the image into the present by alluding to negotiations between Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, and Hitler over the German annexation of the Sudetenland in September 1938.

Salvador Dalí, 1944by Johan Hagemeyer

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:21:53 -0400

Salvador Dalí, 1944
by Johan Hagemeyer

"‘The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it."

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:17:36 -0400

“‘The problem with the youth of today’ is that one is no longer part of it.”

- Salvador Dalí

If that is truly Jean Cocteau, then this photograph is something...

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:12:00 -0400

If that is truly Jean Cocteau, then this photograph is something else. (circa 1953)

magrittee: Salvador Dali - Ambivalent Image (detail)

Sun, 05 May 2013 03:05:20 -0400

magrittee:

Salvador Dali - Ambivalent Image (detail)

adsertoris: Salvador Dalí, Spectre of Sex Appeal. 1934 Some of...

Sun, 05 May 2013 03:04:16 -0400

adsertoris:

Salvador Dalí, Spectre of Sex Appeal. 1934

Some of Dali’s biggest victories were achieved in tiny spaces. There’s no better example of this than his 7-in. x 5-1/2 in. “Spectre of Sex Appeal” of 1934, one of the great little gems in the Teatru-Museu Dali in Figureas, Spain.

Painting was the perfect pressure release valve for Dali’s sexual neuroses, angst and ambivalence. He put on canvas direct and indirect expressions of the often confusing sexual thoughts and self-doubts with which he was preoccupied.

In a bayside cove in Port Lligat, Spain, Dali paints himself here in the familiar childhood sailor suit he was often seen in. The bone and hoop he holds – toys that helped young Salvador pass the time – could easily suggest Freudian symbols of male and female sexual anatomy. The sheer size of the disquieting female figure (often referred to as simply a “torso”) towers over the young, impressionable, sexually vulnerable Dali like a monster.

This strange figure, with sacks for breasts and lower abdominal area, is uniformly described by Dali scholars as headless. But your Interpretations of Dali blogger isn’t entirely sure about that.

If you follow the lines where the front and back of the figure’s neck would extend back, you may discern what appears, convincingly to me, to be a face – complete with pronounced nose, left eye, and distinct hairline.

Intended? Or just the undisputed master of the double/hidden image, challenging us to see beyond the obvious?

I saw “The Spectre of Sex Appeal” in several Dali exhibitions over the years, and it absolutely lives up to its reputation as one of the most precisely painted, jewel-like works ever created by Salvador Dali, who was 30 when he completed this unforgettable canvas.

And once again, as I’ve pointed out in many previous blog posts, Dali achieves his plan of “Dalinian Continuity.” The same self-portrait in sailor suit can be found, also in the lower right corner, in the massive Hallucinogenic Toreador of 1970, which is in the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. (via Dali)

nevver: “Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the...

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:22:54 -0400

nevver:

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

Un blog dedicado a Dalí, genial. Conoces el documental Dimension Dalí? Es acerca del interés y pasión que tuvo por las matemáticas y la ciencia durante toda su vida y como influyeron en su arte. Un saludo!

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:56:00 -0400

Buenas tardes! I’m sorry, my Spanish is still scant, so I will answer in English.

Yes, the documentary Dimension Dalí is a great one. One ought to give kudos for the true, endless passion he had towards science - not to mention the eccentric points of view he possessed to it. People might not realise what a major part science was in his art.

Muchas gracias por tu mensaje!