One million dollar Russian art vandalized by security guard

 Art News: 2/9/22

A Russian security guard was found to have vandalized a Soviet-era avant-garde painting by drawing eyes on its faceless figures using a ball point pen. 

The art was insured for one million dollars. When asked why he did it, he said it was because he got bored.  It was his first day on the job. 

This drawing is called The Pen

Original ink drawing on art paper.

"The Pen"

by

Dan Twyman

Original ink drawing on paper.

Created in 2002

Looking In by Dan Twyman Original Art and prints

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Epic painting by Dan Twyman

"Epic"

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Dan Twyman

30" x 40"

Original Acrylic on Canvas.

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Salvador Dali Print

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Salvador Dali was the last master of the 20th Century. Dan Twyman has captured his likeness in a surreal fashion using a deep burnt orange back drop and piercing red eyes.

Art with Ants

Ant Face 1937

Salvador Dali

Why Ant Art?

Ants have been used or depicted in art for centuries.

The Hopi Indians depicted the Snake people and The Ant People:

Here is Rafael Gómezbarros - Ant Installation:

"Giant Ants"

Art in Nature and art with insects is a popular topic and has been used in literature, films, childrens

books, theatre and more.

"BugsLife"

Here are some images of Ants in the role of humans or a reversal of roles.

All images were hand drawn by Dan Twyman

"Ant with Umbrella"

"Ant Rescue"

"Pest Control"

Drawings were done with pencil, some ink. Images were uploaded

and then colored with a stylus.

The original drawings are on 8" x 10" white paper.

Prints are available by clicking the images above.

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Salvador Dali Portrait by Dan Twyman

The original painting is a 30" x 40" on stretched canvas and was

hand painted by Dan Twyman

Dan hand drew the image on the canvas with pencil and then hand painted 

colors with brush and acrylic paints.

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Cubans Get a Dose of Surrealism at Dali Exhibit

BY MARY MURRAY

HAVANA, CUBA -- Art appraiser Alex Rosenberg has spent decades hanging the forbidden fruit of Cuban art in New York galleries. This week, he opened the minds of Cuban art lovers by exhibiting a collection of the work of the surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) in Havana. It is the first time a major collection of the Spanish-born surrealist has been shown on the island.

The exhibit is entitled “Memories of Surrealism” and opened at the National Museum of Fine Arts.

Viewers enjoying the "Memories of Surrealism" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. The exhibit comprises major works by the late surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

“It is a very important exhibition because it illustrates the flexibility that Dali had”, said Rosenberg, who selected 95 lithographs and etchings from five different periods that span 50 years from Dali’s portfolio. Rosenberg’s goal was to give “the people here the opportunities to see the range of Dali´s work”, a man he describes as a “genius” and “personal friend”.

In the catalogue distributed at this week’s opening, Rosenberg reminisces about one of their favorite New York haunts, the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis Hotel where he first met Dali and commissioned original pieces. Rosenberg also published over 150 editions of original Dali prints.

Many of the Dalis displayed in Havana come from Rosenberg’s personal collection. He is also the president of the Salvador Dali Research Center, sponsor of “Memories of Surrealism”.

Wilfredo Benitez, of Cuba’s Ludwig Foundation, an organization that promotes Cuban art, believes this exhibit is a milestone for Cubans drawn to Dali’s work, especially because few people can afford the luxury of visiting museums in other parts of the world.

Kentucky exchange student Naomi Williams plans to see the exhibit this weekend. “After all the terrible news this week from the Ukraine and Gaza, I need to experience something that reminds me there is beauty in the world.”

Experts find elusive Dali paintings

A picture released by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/VEGAP shows a newly identified painting by Spanish artist Salvador Dali titled "Libre inclinacion del deseo" (Free inclination of Desire) and "Simulacre de la nit" (Simulation of the Night). Picture: AFP / GALA-SALVADOR DALI FOUNDATION

BARCELONA - Two oil paintings, including one owned by Yale University in the United States, have been certified as being the work of Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, officials said on Tuesday.

Art experts from the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation knew that the two works existed but up until now they had been unable to locate and authenticate them.

"We had identified the works but we did not know where they were or how to link them to Dali. We thought they were made by him but we had to verify," the director of the foundation's research department, Montse Aguer, told AFP.

"These are works from Dali's surrealist period. Both are very significant. They depict dreamlike landscapes that are typical of Dali, with shadows and big pedestals."

The two paintings were painted in 1930 and they were put on display by Dali only once, in separate exhibitions.

The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, located in the mustachioed artist's native Figueres in northeastern Spain, discovered the existence of the works through press clippings about the exhibitions that were published at the time.

One painting, Free Inclination of Desire, which depicts a large rock along with ants, keys and other random objects, was shown in an exhibition in 1935 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of Spain's Canary Islands.

It belongs to the art gallery of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Simulation of the Night depicts a veined hand on a column in a barren landscape and appeared at an exhibition in San Francisco in 1965.

It is in the hands of a private collector who does not wish to be identified.

Dali, who is praised by some as a creative genius for his striking and bizarre images, died in Figueres in 1989 aged 85.

Salvador Dali Dinners for Gala Book

Inside book

“When six years old I wanted to be a cook” Dali wrote. He is now sixty eight and his ambition is fulfilled in the shape of a book: Les Dîners de Gala. Published by Felicie Inc.

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Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

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Captain Jack Sparrow
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Dan Twyman
Original work on canvas, also available as a
giclee print in various sizes.
Paper prints, Metal Prints and cell phone cases.

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s onward, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy, and social theory.

Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921), Tate, London

Guggenheim Dali Liquid Desires

Birth of Liquid Desires (La Naissance des désirs liquides), 1931–32. Oil and collage on canvas, 37 7/8 × 44 1/4 inches (96.1 × 112.3 cm). The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 76.2553.100 © 2013 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

By the time Salvador Dalí joined the Surrealist group in 1929, he had formulated his “paranoid-critical” approach to art, which consisted in conveying his deepest psychological conflicts to the viewer in the hopes of eliciting an empathetic response. He embodied this theoretical approach in a fastidiously detailed painting style. One of his hallucinatory obsessions was the legend of William Tell, which represented for him the archetypal theme of paternal assault.¹ The subject occurs frequently in his paintings from 1929, when he entered into a liaison with Gala Eluard, his future wife, against his father’s wishes. Dalí felt an acute sense of rejection during the early 1930s because of his father’s attitude toward him.

Here father, son, and perhaps mother seem to be fused in the grotesque dream-image of the hermaphroditic creature at center. William Tell’s apple is replaced by a loaf of bread, with attendant castration symbolism. (Elsewhere Dalí uses a lamb chop to suggest his father’s cannibalistic impulses.) Out of the bread arises a lugubrious cloud vision inspired by the imagery of Arnold Böcklin. In one of the recesses of this cloud is an enigmatic inscription in French: “Consigne: gâcher l’ardoise totale?”

Reference to the remote past seems to be made in the two forlorn figures shown in the distant left background, which may convey Dalí’s memory of the fond communion of father and child. The infinite expanse of landscape recalls Yves Tanguy’s work of the 1920s. The biomorphic structure dominating the composition suggests at once a violin, the weathered rock formations of Port Lligat on the eastern coast of Spain, the architecture of the Catalan visionary Antoni Gaudí, the sculpture of Jean Arp, a prehistoric monster, and an artist’s palette. The form has an antecedent in Dalí’s own work in the gigantic vision of his mother in The Enigma of Desire of 1929. The repressed, guilty desire of the central figure is indicated by its attitude of both protestation and arousal toward the forbidden flower-headed woman (presumably Gala). The shadow darkening the scene is cast by an object outside the picture and may represent the father’s threatening presence, or a more general prescience of doom, the advance of age, or the extinction of life.

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Salvador Dali and Football? Dali Sports connection

Dali's connection to Sports is quite fascinating.

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Joss Stone pays tribute to Salvador Dali in music video

Joss Stone

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melting clocks inspired by Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"

painting located at the Museum of Modern Art in NY.

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Salvador Dali Viet Nam prints

Angel of Mercy Covering a Calmer World

23" x 16" on V Piera Paper

*Hand signed by Salvador Dali in 1973 in front of witnesses.

*The publisher filmed an interview with the creator of the Dali Museum in Fla., Reynolds Morse.

*The cancelled printing plates are the property of the publisher.

*The bon à tirer prints or Artists Proofs can be seen at the Dali Museum when they are on display.

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam,

Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

During the most publicized part of the Viet Nam War,

Salvador Dali was living in New York at the St. Regis Hotel and meeting with the

public on a regular basis.

The Viet Nam war protests and constant news stories shaped the culture of that day

and sparked unrest and chaos among the young people of the United States.

While most people might refer to the destructive nature of weapons,

Dali referred to the Aomic Bomb as "excited particles".

The extensive study of science as a youth gave Dali a unique perspective on things

having to do with energy or decay as a few examples.

The Angel in the image is similar to the iconic Angel we see

in many of Dali's better known graphics.

The Angel of Mercy is referred to in various religeons,

known for healing and compassion. So during a time of great conflict

and destruction, Dali created a series of works having to do with Peace in Viet Nam.

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Salvador Dali Fantastic Voyage Film connection

The 3D remake of iconic 1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage is to be directed by The Night Of The Museum director Shawn Levy. The original movie was directed by Harry Kleiner, and was based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. It inspired an animated television series, a Salvador Dalí painting of the same name, as well as an Isaac Asimov novelisation.

Deadline.com reports that the new film will follow the same story as the original: a team of scientists shrink themselves and enter a colleague’s body in order to save him from a blood clot.

However, in the new version once the scientists enter the body the film will be almost exclusively CGI. Avatar director James Cameron is signed on to produce.
It's rumored that Hugh Jackman could be about to sign on to play the lead. He’s due to star in the Levy-directed Real Steel in October, and the pair are reportedly looking to work together on an "untitled action/adventure project".

The original "Fantastic Voyage" inspired Salvador Dali to create an interpretation

of the film as an original painting.

After seeing Raquel Welch in the film, it's no surprise Dali wanted to meet her.

The original Painting: "Fantastic Voyage"

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