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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [b] [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE; [2] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [c] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and ...
Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (French: Couple aux Têtes Pleines de Nuages) is a 1936 diptych painting by Salvador Dalí.The oil on plywood work represent tables in a desert landscape and are cut out like the silhouettes of the characters in Jean-François Millet's painting The Angelus (L'Angélus).
The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Spanish: El Torero Alucinógeno) is a 1969–1970 multi-leveled oil painting by Salvador Dalí which employs the canons of his particular interpretation of surrealist thought. It is currently being exhibited at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí, from 1944. A shorter alternate title for the painting is Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee. The woman in the painting, dreaming, is believed to represent his wife, Gala, a regular presence in his work.
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an autobiography by the artist Salvador Dalí published in 1942 by Dial Press. The book was written in French and translated into English by Haakon Chevalier . It covers his family history, his early life, and his early work up through the 1930s, concluding just after Dalí's return to Catholicism and just ...
The hands of the watches float above their dials, with several conical objects floating in parallel formations encircling the watches. A fourth melting watch has been added. The distorted human visage from the original painting is beginning to morph into another of the strange fish floating above it. To Dalí, however, the fish was a symbol of ...
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach is an oil painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, from 1938. It is part of the Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in Hartford , Connecticut .
But the theme is even longer: long as the genetical persistance of human memory. As announced by the prophet Isaiah—the Saviour contained in God's head from which one sees for the first time in the iconographic history his arms repeating the molecular structures of Crick and Watson and lifting Christ's dead body so as to resuscitate him in ...