Salvador Dali works from Spain on display in Florida

Museum to feature Dalí paintings from Spain

The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg will welcome 12 works by its famous Spanish surrealist namesake never before seen in America.

"The Royal Inheritance: Dalí works from the Spanish National Collection" exhibit, co-curated by Dalí museum's senior curators Joan Kropf and William Jeffett, runs Oct. 1 through March 13, 2013.
The new exhibit comes to the museum by way of the National Collection of Modern Art in Spain — Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

"Composition"

(1928) is a large abstract work. The exhibit paintings have never been seen in America.

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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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Invisible Sleeping Woman Horse Lion by Salvador Dali

Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion

Salvador Dali

 Musee National d-Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Great masterworks are born of pain. In his cottage at Port Lligat, Dali now set about painting like one possessed. Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion was surely the major work of this period; while The Invisible Man is the first double-image picture of a man and a 'woman, a fetish to protect the two lovers, Dali and Gala, from Dali's father and other dangers. Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion not only examines Dali's recurring theme of the persistence of desire, but is also an investigation of multiple-image possibilities such as the artist was to explore over and over again in the sequel. The multiple image, to Dali's way of thinking, could extend the "paranoiac" process by adding a second and even third visual dimension.

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Detroit Institute of Arts Salvador Dali and other Spanish Masters

How big should an exhibition be? “Five Spanish Masterpieces” packs a mighty wallop, even though you can count the paintings on one hand.

The Detroit Institute of Arts’ great blue period Picasso, “Melancholy Woman,” has returned home after two years on loan to exhibitions across the globe. To celebrate, the DIA has surrounded it with dynamite paintings by El Greco, Velázquez, Goya and Salvador Dali.

Curated by Salvador Salort-Pons, head of European Art at the DIA, the exhibition is spread over three galleries — this is one show that’s not overhung — and sweeps through about 300 years of Spanish art.

Dali and Picasso get their own rooms. Dali style changed later in his career, but his gruesome antiwar picture, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans” (1936), remains a surrealist landmark.

But it’s the center gallery that makes the show, with portraits of an unknown man by Velázquez and a matador by Goya, plus El Greco’s “The Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist” (1600).

— Detroit Free Press

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Salvador Dali Homage to Venice

Homage to Venice

Venice is a city in northeast Italy sited on a group of 118 small

islands separated by canals and linked by bridges, and is a top
destination for travlers and tourists.

The name Venice is derived from the ancient Veneti people
who inhabited the region by the 10th century B.C.

Dali and his wife Gala traveled to Venice for vacation with
Coco Chanel and others.

Venice was a favorite spot for Dali as he was influenced by its

architecture and its artworks, and inspired a number of well

known works including this one.

The print shown is embossed.

Here is an image of a portion of the back of the print to show some

of the indented portions of the image thus creating more a

painted look.